



aMMst. 



Class Record and 
Book of Decennial. 



Class Record 

AND 

Book of the Decennial. 



Amherst College, 
Class of 1555. •:• 



Published by the Class, 
1599. 



In accordance with the desire expressed by many pORpWORD 
of the classmates present at the Decennial reunion this 
little book has been prepared. 

It aims to supplement the Class Record published 
in 1893, and to preserve for the benefit of the whole class 
a formal report of the enthusiastic gathering in June 
last. 

The labor of compilation has fallen in the midst of a 
busy year, while the inevitable delays incident to the 
gathering of statistics have been aggravated by unex- 
pected though unavoidable delays in printing. Thus 
the record reaches the class somewhat later than was at 
first hoped, but not too late, I trust, to fulfill its mission 
in stirring anew the college spirit and loyalty of each 
member of Eighty-Eight. 

For the mistakes that have doubtless been made in 
weaving together the information gathered from many 
sources only the compiler can be blamed. His thanks 
are due to the many classmates who have assisted him 
in securing the data from which the Record, as it stands, 
has been completed. 

S. O. Hartwell. 



My dear Boys of Eighty-Eight: GREETING. 

The last commencement was one of such unusual 
petty cares and responsibilities that I stood on my head 
a great part of the time and so could not even shake 
hands with but a moiety of the boys who came back, 
and whom I wanted more than a hand shake from. But 
from the general racket which you made I guess that 
on the whole you called it a good time, and that did us 
all good. It is a pleasure to me to follow as many of 
you as I can, and I rejoice at the many successes of 
some of the class and my cordial sympathy goes to the 
few who have known affliction, adversity and imperfect 
success. To the latter a brighter day will come, and 
the former I beg to hold fast to what belongs to them 
and they have already acquired. My special attachment 
to '88 is apparent from the assistant whom the trustees 
have given me, who fills the bill and is giving growth 
and development to the department. 

The spirit of College is beautiful. All feel, and act 
accordingly, that while there is no head here now, every 
man will do his best and take good care of the mother 
till she marries again. 

But all the same, and all the while, come and see 
the old lady, remember her on her birthdays, think of 
her, say a good word, and pray the Good Father to be 
nearer and nearer to us. 

Most affectionately, 

E. Hitchcock. 



,^^%,S the secretary was prevented from attending the T-Hp 

B/]^\€ Decennial he will not attempt to describe it, tat/tixtxtt x t 

y» u .- .• r 1 ,, r DECENNIAL. 

^^^ save by presentmg portions of letters from 
several of the boys who were there. 

All accounts agree that it was the best reunion the 
class has held and one of the best Decennials that 
Amherst has seen. The programme of festivities as 
previously arranged was enthusiastically carried through. 
Forty-two men were at the banquet Monday evening, 
and the following forty-six were present in Amherst 
during some part of the week: 

Baker, Bard, Bartlett, Bispham, Bliss, Child, S. A. 
Clark, Dickerman, Edwards, Esty, Ewing, Gage, Gar- 
field, Gleason, Goodrich, A. P. Goodwin, W. D. Good- 
win, Greenough, Hastings, Heard, Huntington, F. S. 
Hyde, Jackson, Jacobs, Jewett, Kebbe, Leonard, Mar- 
shall, Merritt, Miller, Noyes, Oldham, Ferine, Phillips, 
Pierce, Prest, Ramsdell, Riggs, W. P. Smith, Stearns, 
Steele, Tenney, Waldo, W. F. White, Whiting, Woodin. 

John Miller writes: 

"I am at home again after a splendid time at Amherst- joHN MILLER. 
I shall forward you in a few days the full financial 
details. Up to the present time the thing has just about 
paid for itself. 

I was there Friday night and found Bill Smith, 
Ferine, and all the faculty and town men on hand of 
course. Saturday I moved my quarters to Hitchcock 
Hall as I perceived that this would be the storm-center. 
Here I stayed till Thursday noon when Bill Greenough 
and I were the last in town and felt too sorrowful to give 
each other the class yell (as we had done for each previous 
one) so parted in sorrow and agreed it was a Reunion to 
be proud of, and in reality it was — forty-two men to sit 
down to dinner after ten years shows that we have the 

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proper spirit; and it was a delightful dinner, Rammy 
presided with ministerial unction, and the usual gags, 
and grinds and interruptions filled the atmosphere. 
The choragus fell down badly in trying to get the quar- 
tet and octet numbers safely by the land batteries, so we 
gave it up and everybody joined in the melee. Sunday 
evening we did ourselves proud by giving a whole sacred 
concert by ourselves in quite a creditable way. At least 
that is what we thought and many said as much. The 
church was filled with admirers and critics though the 
weather was hot as could be. Babbum sang as of yore 
(perhaps even more yorely.) Charlie Bliss and Leonard 
developed remarkable improvement in ten years, and 
Charlie Edwards and I were about as ten years before. 
Monday afternoon Mrs. Todd gave us a nice reception 
which we all attended, and got better acquainted with 
our wives than we had hitherto had the opportunity to 
be. There was a goodly number there too. * * * 
I have covered our doings up to Tuesday night which 
had the usual society doings not important to class mat- 
ter. Most of the gang left town Wednesday afternoon 
after Alumni dinner and Bill Greenough, Jackson and I 
occupied the house alone that night. 

The private functions of meeting and discoursing 
together in a joyful fashion that occupied the days and 
nights cannot be recited in a letter of course, and as you 
missed it your imagination alone must be your rescuer. 
It was most enjoyable. All agreed that we were no 
older than in '88 and that all these wives, babies, bald 
heads and whiskers were a sense delusion or — if not 
exactly that — at least a hitherto undiscovered form of 
being, real enough in themselves but not powerful 
enough reality to weigh against the noumenal fact that 
we were not a bit older than ten years ago." 

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Phillips, also of the committee, says: 

"In response to your request for reports of the P- C. PHILLIPS. 
Decennial I send a word, but you must not forget that 
as a member of the committee of arrangements I am 
likely to be prejudiced. 

My sermon has three heads. 

Firstly, for nu?nbers our reunion has scarcely if ever 
been excelled. And a finer looking, solider class it has 
never been my lot to see back at a reunion. I under- 
stand '88 in numbers showed up in marked contrast to 
her other reunions. 

Secondly, in unity our class evinced the character- 
istic shown years ago in cane rushes and rushes without 
canes. The boys acted as a unit when it came to any- 
thing of importance and stood together for what they 
thought right and what was good for the college. 

Thirdly, the spirit of '88 was admirable. It was 
manifested in the humble, tedious work of putting up 
the bunting which graces the pillars in the cut, and 
again in '88's interest in all pertaining to the college weal; 
but most of all at the banquet where, while criticism 
was not absent, nor deserved to be, it made loyalty, 
helpful, hearty loyalty to the old college the key note of 
the occasion. 

Your humble servant is aware that other classes 
have been larger in numbers than '88, that others have 
had brighter lights in the world of business and letters 
than she has yet shown, that still others have maintained 
a higher average mark in college than did she; but when 
forty-six of the old boys flocked into town and made 
themselves felt everywhere and especially at Alumni 
dinner he felt proud that of all the classes which • 
Amherst has graduated he belonged to the class of '88." 

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A. H. Pierce had charge of the arrangements for 
Sunday evening's concert, which was most successful. 
He writes as follows: 
A. H. PIERCE. "Commencement seems now about a year ago, but I 

fancy the forty-six men of '88 that got back here at that 
time will cherish a warm memory of the few days here 
for a longer time than a single year. You have doubt- 
less heard many accounts of the reunion and of the more 
general doings of this particularly joyful commencement. 
I am not going to burden you with any details. There 
were few things to be regretted, but one was that 
you were unable to be here with us, and this was deep- 
ened when we learned that your contribution to the 
supper had by some oversight been allowed to remain 
in the postoffice. 

Every detail of the Decennial seems to have 
happened as it should. The spirit shown was excellent. 
There was nothing to mar the entire event. All were 
quietly happy to be here. Thfe little event of Sunday 
evening resulted in a crowded church and many expres- 
sions of gratification. The toasts at the supper were 
capital and the toastmaster beyond reproach. Of course 
you have seen the neat menus. Miller was the lordly 
youth of former days — somewhat over stout, perhaps, as 
was then his wont — but still able to move about at a 
lively rate and collect dues." 

Child says: 
\V. B. CHILD. "How the old days came back to me as I sat last 

June with the boys on the piazza of old Hitchcock! * 

* * If I could only think of what studies I am in, 
and to whom I am due to recite to-morrow — but I can't, 
somehow. Here are the college buildings, surrounded 
by the same lovely landscape — there is no doubt we are 



in Amherst. And here are the boys, and there is Old 
Doc coming across the common, why, surely we are 
still studying and will rush up to chapel to-morrow 
morning with our breakfasts sticking in our crops. 

Hello! When did Bliss acquire all that hirsute 
wealth? Am I still dreaming? There is Noyes looking 
strangely bald! It begins to look as if the dream were the 
reality. And what's come over Babbum? "Good even 
to my ghostly confessor." And Rammy — what a mag- 
nificent vocabulary! Yes, yes, and Oldham — "Acquitted 
by a true substantial form." 

Did I overhear some one asking Leonard how many 
children he had? He replies — I caught that straight — 
"Why, several." Then it is all up. We are here only 
to renew our long past college days for a few brief hours 
and then to part once more." 

Hastings' report is as follows: 

"I enclose the blank filled out as you requested on K. W. HASTINGS, 
"special order." I had a first-rate time at the meeting 
in June. My only regret was the absence of some of 
my good friends like yourself. Yet among the forty-six 
present were many who are more than mere acquaint- 
ances. There was not a great deal of reminiscence how- 
ever, but the fellows were filled with a high desire to 
help the college of the present. The speeches at the 
dinner were on a high level while not lacking in fun and 
jollity. The men of '88 have met the problems of the 
world and they are not shirking their responsibility in 
the answers which must be given. Of course there was 
an abundance of good-fellowship and cordiality on all 
sides. 

It was said that one underclassman asked another 
what that class of '88 did when they were in college that 

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they were greeted so cordially and made so much show 
in numbers and in cheers. The other replied "Oh, that 
is the class that took all the athletic prizes that were 
going during the whole four years they were in college." 
Even if we did not do quite that, we were greeted cor- 
dially by professors and townspeople, many of whom still 
remember us both as a class and as individuals." 

Stearns writes: 

A. F. STEARNS. "You wish to hear all about the reunion. It was a 

grand success — at least from nearly every standpoint. 
Only those who were present can know what a pleasure 
it was to meet the dear familiar faces again. But our 
pleasures were marred by a touch of sadness, for many 
were absent. The Rev. Mr. Kebbe looked very sad 
without his old friend Judson; "Babbum," uninspired 
by the presence of "Chappie's" critical ear, was not at 
his best in rendering "The Bull Dog on the Bank", and 
Bard unaccompanied by Jack Smith was truly an object 
of pity. However, the absence of so many dear old 
faces could not long check the feeling of gladness 
caused by the presence of so many more, and so the 
boys soon settled down for a jolly good time. The 
climax of enthusiasm was reached, I think, at the 
banquet, where the boys — realizing that they were again 
evening up old scores — put no check upon either their 
appetites or their voices. This part of the program was, 
according to John Oldham, "a howling success." Well, 
like school boys who have come to the end of some vaca- 
tion, there is nothing left to do but settle down and look 
forward to the next one. Let us hope that the next 
time the roll is called we shall not have to record a 
single absence." 

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There were no stenographers at the banquet and it 
has not been possible to secure the ''notes" from which 
all the boys spoke — particularly as many were called 
upon unexpectedly. So many of the speeches as could 
be secured, however, are here given in the order of the 
toast list. The "Leaf from History" which Hartwell 
sent was delayed in the mails but is here given in its 
allotted connection. 



Classmates of Eighty- Eight: *' \ LEAF FROM 

When I promised our toastmaster that I would HISTORY." 

attempt this Sibylline task of reading from the leaves, I 

fully expected to be with you to-night and to be able to ^ ^ HARTWELL. 

speak face to face these few words concerning our. class 

record. 

For your sake as well as my own I regret deeply 

that circumstances prevent my presence. I am sorry on 

the one hand to inflict a written report at such a gather- 
ing; on the other hand I am more disappointed than I 

can say that I cannot join you in the Decennial festivi- 
ties. But, whatever the circumstances, one cannot fail to 

respond cheerfully and triumphantly when asked for a 

"Leaf from History" — the History of Eighty-Eight. 

The annals of the class are by no means complete. 

Glad as I am to recall the virtues of my classmates there 

are very few whom I could conscientiously commend as 

correspondents or reporters. The majority seem to 

emulate the modest compression of Bishop Brook's 

famous autobiography, which put, you remember, the 

story of a remarkable life into a half dozen commonplace 

lines. The statements of not a few remind one of the 

small boy's diary in which the most frequent item was 

"Forgot what did." 

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But if we remember any of the teachings of a dozen 
years ago we know that annals are the lesser part of 
history. ''The spirit which giveth life" often manifests 
itself most clearly in the simple forms and deeds that 
men stop not to speak of and enlarge by word. From 
the records of Eighty-Eight as they have come to me I 
think it can fairly be said that the same vigor, the 
same steadfastness, the same success that characterized 
the class in its salad days have impelled and attended 
its members through this first graduate decade. 

Our membership is well distributed in the various 
branches of business and professional activity. Of those 
who were together until the end of the course, twenty- 
three are now in business, sixteen are teaching in one 
capacity or another; fifteen are lawyers, eighteen, clergy- 
men (two in foreign lands), ten are physicians, two are 
editors. This includes some duplication of titles, as, e. 
g. — Dr. Professor Phillips. In addition we have a mine 
superintendent, a consulting chemist, an actor, a 
librarian, a literary critic and two students. In each 
line there have been notable successes; in none do I 
hear of failure. Our lawyers and doctors seem to be 
enjoying good practice. Most of them are too busy to 
write. Some are already engaged in teaching their 
fledgling brethern of the 'go's the intricacies of the 
human body or the legal fallacies of the human brain. 

Among our preachers Ramsdell is eloquent as of 
yore. Bispham still leans to music and has been giving 
"Hints to the Younger Clergy" on that topic. F. S. 
Hyde is blest with twins and, with Caesar, cries "Beware 
the Ides of March." Of our teachers "Lengthy" Peirce 
has elongated into the Reverend President William F. 
Peirce of Kenyon College, while "Little" Pierce, as 



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"Kellogg Fellow" has concentrated in his brain the 
psychological lore of Europe. 

We have other worthy representation in the home 
faculty. The athletic skill and prowess of Eighty-Eight 
has crystallized in Dr. Phillips and is again a factor at 
Amherst. He is "Shorty" to-night, but do not mention 
it on the campus, lest the dignity that has been so long 
the glory of that department be dimmed! Davidson is 
practising law in one of the tallest buildings of Chicago. 
Little Dave controls the aluminum output of the country. 
Chapman is still blowing the "Ram's Horn" outside the 
gates of Jericho (at least he is in Chicago too), and 
Wilkinson adorns the financial centers. 

So it goes. George Hyde is making a name in 
literary work, Votaw in Biblical scholarship, while Billy 
Marsh — married, by the way — has, to use his own words, 
"given himself to direct evangelization," which takes 
him a notch above the other clergymen of the class and 
quite out of sight of the laymen. The spirit of our busi- 
ness men is epitomized in Charlie Raymond's answer to 
the request for personal history since 1893: "Still 
striving to show the world that the best rubber goods in 
the world are made by the Goodrich Hard Rubber Co., 
at Akron, Ohio." 

All are working, all are in earnest, the most are 
married. The marital record has already been put in 
your hands and shows for itself that we are serving well 
our day and generation. Let the bachelors remember, 
however, "They also serve who only stand and wait." 

Truly the years have been good to us. In worldly 
ways the trying times of the last few years have not 
overpowered us. Death has not left us unvisited, but 
since 1893 no member has fallen from the ranks. 

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Could I look into your faces tonight I am sure that 
I should find there the spirit which I have interpreted 
in your letters. 

Our gristle has hardened, our sinews are tense, our 
purposes are fixed. As men we are fulfilling the teach- 
ings of Alma Mater and the promises of Amherst years. 
With joy in the comradery of the past, with strength 
from its renewal, we shall go on to meet the future. 
The path is still upward, the years of greatest oppor- 
tunity are before us. Like Paracelsus, 

"We go to prove our souls." 



AMTiFRST ^^' Toastmaster and Classmates: 

CCW I FTF ^ ^^^® \i^^n wondering what kind of picture Hart- 

well's notice called up in the mind of each of you, as, 
with baby on knee, memory carried you back over ten 
P. C. PHILLIPS. ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ,gg ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ college. Was it a land- 
scape wherein lay purple mountains, green meadow 
and winding river? Or did college hill with its spires 
rise before you. Walker Hall in its grandeur, the famil- 
iar dormitories, the church and its ivies, or perhaps the 
old "gym" and inseparable from it the white beard, 
genial face and red fez of him who was, and is, the head, 
and better, the heart of the department and the college? 
Perchance the faces of college friends and classmates 
came first into your picture, friends with whom you 
walked and trusted, studied and flunked in that happy 
period. Or possibly the vision might have contained 
the countenances of those whose teaching so influenced 
your life, "Old Ty" with face shining over Demosthenes, 
Morse illuminating a page of history, or Garman as with 
that rare smile he led you suddenly out of the dark 
forest into the clear light of truth. 

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Not one but many, perhaps all of these images, 
entered into your picture. 

While the college suffered an irreparable loss when 
we left it, yet the mountains and buildings and faculty 
are still here and the spirit of the past still lives. We are 
at present without an executive head, but under our worthy 
dean and with the faculty more united and loyal than 
ever you may still expect great things of your Alma 
Mater and plan confidently to send your sons to her 
halls. Her grounds have never been so beautiful nor 
her equipment so good nor her faculty so adequate as 
to-day. 

To be sure our athletic victories for the past few 
years have not been numerous but with the hearty 
cooperation of the young alumni, for which plans, are 
now forming, we expect great improvement in the near 
future. 

The relations between students and faculty are 
amicable and while the senate of our day is for a time 
defunct I believe that with sufficient back-bone behind 
it much good may be acomplished by its resuscitation. 

Fraternity life, it is admitted on all hands, has 
become too prominent in Amherst College. It has been 
detrimental to her athletic interests and blighting to 
proper college spirit. Steps are being taken by the 
students themselves to keep fraternity life in its proper 
sphere and to emphasize zeal and spirit for the college. 

Classmates, let loyalty to the college be the motto 
of '88 at this time and let us pledge it now in a toast 
"To the College we left but the College we love." 



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THF CI ASS OF "Many of us have been walking in new paths. We 

have been wearing new shoes. We have been trying to 

ElVJlll Y'EiUllK jjj^jjg new places for ourselves. After the hunt King 
James used to order his old shoes because they were 
W» Fl^ PKEST. easiest. Old friends are best. And our best friends 
ought to be found in the class of '88, and the men of '88 
ought to be the best friends of Amherst College. For 
to-night, at least, let us wear our hearts on our sleeves. 
Let us not think it unmanly to show our deepest feel- 
ings for one another and for our Alma Mater. 

The class of '88 is back again in Amherst. Back 
again in harmony. Old, familiar faces smile on us round 
the banquet. Some, indeed, are gone. Parsons, Brooks, 
Tracy. Parsons, beaten down by an incurable disease, 
discovered a sweet and fine nobility. Sam Brooks 
because of the faith that was in him freely gave up his 
life, and old "Pat" Tracy died like a hero, down where 
the Mississippi flows, trying to save the lives of others. 
Thick as the leaves of the ivy that cling to and beautify 
the College walls are the deeds and memories that bind 
us to Amherst College. 

Amherst is not famous for the beauty of her hills 
alone, the Genius Loci invests them with their charm. 
Lakes are not famous merely for depth, the residing 
dragon imparts to them a spell not their own. These 
Amherst hills and streams are ours again. We 
feel their charm and spell. Glad is their renewal of 
college life in due season. Let us enjoy the bright hours, 
as they pass, among our friends, or on the hills, or beside 
the brook. But before leaving one another again, before 
the vision has faded quite away, let us resolve to do 
homage to the College from which we have inherited so 
much. 



Epictetus, though a slave, valued his soul more 
highly than his ears. He had been brought up on 
Socrates and Plato and Zeno and felt that he had inher- 
ited great wealth from them. He called them his spiritual 
ancestors and rejoiced that they had transmitted to him 
their higher characteristics. Amherst is our spiritual 
ancestor. We ought to take pride in her. The man 
who has no pride in his high lineage and looks back to 
no inspiring source from which his being flowed will 
never see God who is our home. The Amherst man 
that takes no pride in Amherst is like the citizen that 
does not love his country. The Amherst man that does 
not love the purple and white is like the American that 
does not love the red, white and blue. 

The crying need of Amherst to-day is loyalty from 
her sons. Who will re-enlist for old Amherst? Will 
you? Will you? Not for four years. Not for any 
short and vain-glorious war. But for a period of service 
that shall last as long as any member of the class of '88 
is able to render service to his Alma Mater. Hail to the 
Class of '88! Hail to Amherst College! And again. Hail 
to the Class of '88!" 

An appeal to Huntington for an abstract of the SNAP SHOTS. 
remarks made by those whom Ramsdell called on for 
"snap shots" has brought the following: 

"I have been vainly waiting a few days to see if I E. C. HUNTINGTON. 
could recall any of the words from the "snap shooters," 
but I cannot. There was such a genial air of good 
comradeship prevailing that I paid little attention to 
anything that was said beyond the fact that it all seemed 
happily put and pat for the occasion. Bard said some 
things worthy of record and I suggest you write to him. 
As to myself — I did not expect to be there and did not 

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at all expect to say anything, so what little I said was 
in the way of killing time. The place of the small 
college; the place of Amherst among those colleges; the 
preparedness of the Amherst man for the broadest fields 
of usefulness to his fellow men and to himself — these 
things are what I attempted to say. 

Bliss had his usual fund of good stories with which 
he entertained us. I suggest you write Greenough also. 
He had some good things. 

The spirit of the class was one of hopefulness for 
the weal of the college and a confirmation of the old-time 
belief that '88 was the best class that ever graduated, 
gradually settled over those who assembled." 

W B GREENOUGH "Ever since your first letter and notice came to me 

I have at long intervals set my memory to work to give 
you an "abstract of my remarks" at the class banquet. 
As the toastmaster did not intimate that he would call 
on me until we sat down to dinner, my brief remarks 
were so wholly extemporaneous that, while I remember 
much that others said, I have forgotten the few things I 
spoke of. Unfortunately there are no '88 men here in 
Providence whose memories I can set to work for my 
advantage, and I have been quite discouraged since Bill 
Prest, who lunched with me the other day and to whom, 
as a member of the Decennial committee, I applied for 
information, declared he didn't remember a thing except 
that it was the best class dinner he ever attended. I 
remember that I emphasized the influence that '88 might 
and should bring to bear on the trustees in the choice of 
a president, perhaps more individually than as a class, 
and the feeling that we should do more for Amherst in 
this critical time to revive some of the good old influences 
which have become but traditions and to help the college 

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forward to a fuller, broader and more useful life in the 
future. I remember that with words which were but a 
scanty expression of my feelings I proposed a toast to the 
memory of that loving, true and manly friend who repre- 
sented so fully the things which we love in a teacher 
and a friend, Professor Frink." 

Bard's treatment of practical college issues will be 
appreciated by all, as it was by those present. He said 
in substance: 

"The times and the college have changed much since A. S. BARD. 
Pindar Field and Ebenezer Snell hoisted a new bucket 
in the newly dug college well just over there on the hill. 
But whatever changes there may have been and may be, 
there seems to me to be one thing you can count on 
here in Amherst College, and that is an honesty of 
judgment of our own college, i. e. in a certain sense of 
our own selves — and this whether the judgment turns out 
favorable or unfavorable. Now that is not so every- 
where. Only a few weeks ago at a Yale dinner, a Yale 
alumnus was rash enough to criticise the English depart- 
ment of the university, and immediately a howl went up 
from the alumni at the disloyalty shown by public criti- 
cism. Perhaps there has been at times too much criti- 
cism here. I do not praise indiscriminate fault-finding, 
but if the candid admission of a defect bids fair to start 
an improvement, or prevent a second mistake, such an 
uproar over such a cause is impossible in Amherst. 
Therefore I shall say frankly some of the things that 
have come into my head while we have been talking 
over old life here and the present days. The enthusi- 
asm, generosity and loyalty of alumni are among the 
most important elements out of which any college builds 
its growth, and do not these elements gather about the 

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beauties of the college? In our own case, is there any- 
thing that we all unite upon so enthusiastically as the 
loveliness of our own college and college town? What 
a costly mistake, then, the new laboratory is! It was 
said of President Stearns, grandfather of our classmate 
here, that "he found the college of brick and left it of 
granite," there, simple as you please — the library, with 
its abmirable proportions and color, shows what can be 
done — but more uniformity is essential to the beauty of 
the college, and the power to appreciate beauty will 
follow the thing itself. To my mind, "Dicky" Mather 
did more for Amherst College when he put his collec- 
tion of plaster ghosts in Williston Hall, than many other 
professors of whom we were more afraid. 

In the second place, I want to speak of a topic 
which came up at an Amherst dinner in New York last 
winter. One of the younger Alumni had just made a 
ringing speech against cribbing, winning the enthusias- 
tic assent of all, as I supposed, until one of the older 
alumni seated at the head table, the father of a boy in 
college, had the amazing effrontery to get up and say 
that "he did not consider cribbing a very bad thing after 
all." Now I claim the right to speak freely on this 
point. I cribbed in college myself. And if there is 
anything mean, dishonest, and contemptible among the 
temptations of a college boy, that is it. Let there be 
whatever effort there may to rid colleges of idleness, 
dissipation, and worse, cribbing is the one thing that 
should not be tolerated for a moment. I believe that 
much of it is done carelessly, thoughtlessly, because it is 
in the air, and I believe that an atmosphere can be 
created in which this college curse cannot breathe. 

Athletics is a topic I should like to say a word about, 
because we have one of the pilots of Amherst athletics 

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here. I take it that the aim of wise college athletics is 
to effect the greatest good to the greatest number, that 
its real business, therefore, is not so much the winning 
of games and making of records in intercollegiate sports 
by the few, as the improvement of the health of the 
many. Hence the importance of getting the many into 
the gymnasium and making them work when they get 
there. Those collars and boiled shirts ought to come 
off at class drills, Dr. Phillips! 

The last thing about which I have a word to say is 
the fraternity spirit. While the particular members of 
one fraternity are on friendly terms with particular 
members of another fraternity — there are always such 
cases — I am told that fraternity rivalry runs higher than 
when we were at college. Now it is no easy task to say 
how far fraternity spirit may properly go or not go, but 
it is perfectly clear that too much fraternity rivalry 
injures the college spirit and saps the spirit out of the 
whole. So we older members of our fraternities, occu- 
pying positions to advise, should carefully consider this 
question and do what we can to encourage what shall be 
for the good of the whole." 

Ramsdell's brief note is in point here; 

"Speeches all good. Excellent tone through the F. E. RAHSDELL. 
whole banquet. Did not know of your report until next 
day. The reunion was, in my judgment a most suc- 
cessful affair and my one regret is that all could not have 
been there. I am strongly in favor of a tremendous 
push for the fifteenth year. We are growing older, 
some are passing away, but '88 can be kept going. 
Why not do it?" 



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MEETING. 



THE BUSINESS I^igg's report of the business transacted should 

properly become a part of the record and is given here: 

"At the memorable banquet of the class of '88 at its 
Decennial reunion, June 27, i8g8, it was moved that a 
secretary pro tem be appointed. Ramsdell, master of 
the feast, named Riggs for secretary of the meeting, to 
transmit to Hartwell, the absent secretary, brief notes 
of the business transacted. 

On motion, a committee was appointed by the 
toastmaster-chairman, consisting of Bard, Greenough 
and Goodrich, for the purpose of drafting resolutions to 
be presented to the Alumni Association of Amherst Col- 
lege, expressing the good will, the sympathy and the 
earnest desire of the class of '88 to cooperate in all good 
measures for the advancement of the college and all its 
interests. 

A vote of thanks was given to Mr. Hayes and to 
Mr. Lamson for their kind services in playing the organ 
at the song recital of '88. It was added that an operatic 
score be presented to Mr. Lamson as a souvenir of the 
occasion. The duty was assigned to A. H. Pierce to 
purchase and present the same. 

On motion to proceed to the election of officers the 
following were unanimously elected — succeeding them- 
selves: 

President, Wm. M. Prest. 

Secretary-Treasurer Shattuck O. Hartwell. 

A motion that a committee of three be appointed to 
express in suitable manner the thanks of the class to 
Secretary Hartwell was passed. 

The chair named Phillips, Oldham and Waldo as 
the committee. 

James G. Riggs, 

Secretary pro tem." 

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The resolutions mentioned were to take the place of THE RESOLUTIONS, 
the toast generally given at commencement dinner by 
a member of the Decennial class. 

Their fate is thus described by Bard: 

"The resolutions or toast were given to Doctor 
Hitchcock and not read by the chairman at the dinner 
because the other things took all the time and more too. 
But the Doctor said he was going to print the toast 
among the things done at the dinner — on the principle 
of the congressional record — if it may be said to have 
any." 

With the program of the service of sacred music 
and the menu and toast list of the banquet the formal 
record of our reunion closes. May these gleanings not 
alone show why the Decennial roused the old-time 
enthusiasm of all who were there but also serve to renew 
the college loyalty and college memories of each mem- 
ber of the Class of Eighty- Eight. 



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SERVICE OF SACRED MUSIC 

BY THE 

CLASS OF 1888 

ASSISTED BY 

Messrs. S. P. Hayes '96 and C. E. Lamson 'gg. 



Organ, Maestoso George Calkin. 

Mr. Child. 
Anthem, Selected. 
Messrs. Leonard, Edwards, Miller and Bisfham, 

3. Organ, Pastorale Arthur Foote. 

Mr. Child. 

4. Solo, "O God Have Mercy." . , St. Paul. 

Mr. Bispham. 

5. Hymn No. 96. 

Congregation. 

6. Solo, Selected 

Mr. Leonard. 
Organ, Vorspiel to Lohengrin Wagner. 

Mr. Lamson. 
Anthem, Selected. 

Quartette. 
Solo, "Cantique de Noel," Adolphe Adam. 

Mr. Bispham. 
Organ, Piece Symphonique Grieg. 

Mr. Lamson. 
Hymn No. 566. 

Congregation. 
Organ, Russian Romance Hoffman. 

Mr. Lamson. 

13. Solo, "It is Enough," The Elijah. 

Mr. Bliss. 

14. Organ, Marche Pontificale Tombelle. 

Mr. Lamson. 
College Church, June 2b, i8g8. 



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DECENNIAL BANQUET 

OF THE 

CLASS OF EIGHTY-EIGHT, 

OF 
AMHERST COLLEGE, 

Monday, June 27th, 1898. 

F. E. Ramsdell, Toastmaster. 

A. H. Pierce, Choragus. 



MENU. 



Bisque of Lobster and Clear Consomme. 
Small Bread Sticks. 



Boiled Salmon and Peas. 
Cucumbers, French Dressing. Potato Croquettes. 



Whole Sweetbreads Larded. 

Stuffed Spanish Peppers. 
Salted Nuts. 



Tom and Jerry. 



Stall-fed Pigeons, Potato Delmonico. 



Sardine Salad. 



Baba au Rum. 
Opera Pudding Naples. Sultana Roll, Claret Sauce. 



Olives. 



Tortoni. 



Coflfee. 
Roquefort and Camembert. Water Thin Crackers. 



Strawberries. 



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POST PRANDIAL. 



Glendower— "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." 
Hotspur — "Why so can I; or so can any man: 

But will they come when you do call for them?" 

— King Henry IV. 

Welcome Toastmaster. 

WoLSEY — "A good digestion to you all; and, once more 
I shower a welcome on you: welcome all." 

— King Henry VHI. 
Songs — We meet again to-night. Octette. 

The Festal Day has come. 

A Leaf From History . (Shattuck O. Hartwell.) 

Rosalind— "Prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I 
may drink thy tidings." — As You Like It. 

The Class of Eighty-Eight . William M. Prest. 

King Edward — "Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course. 
And we are graced with wreathes of victory." 

— King Henry VI. 

Song — Amici Class. 

C J. E. Oldham, 
^ T-. ) S. A. Clark, 

College Days .... ■< a. F. Stearns, 

[ J. H. Miller. 
Leonato — "A Skirmish of wit between them." 

Muck Ado About Nothing. 
Few Days, 
Songs— The Pope, Class. 

Sunday School Scholar. 

In Memoriam .... The Toastmaster. 
Amherst College . . Paul C. Phillips. 

Salisbury — "To gild refined gold, to paint the lily. 
Is wasteful and ridiculous excess." 

— King John. 
Songs — Here's to Amherst College. Class. 

My father sent me to old Amherst, 

r C. L. Bliss, 
Snap Shots J E. C. Huntington, 

SNAP bHOTS . . . • -^ w. B. Greenough, 

( A. S. Bard. 
Coriolanus— "Well, mildly be it then, mildly." 

— Coriola nus. 

A Prophecy . . . (Frederick L. Chapman.) 
Ophelia — "Lord, we know what we are, but know not what 
we may be." — Hamlet. 

Song — Selected Quartette. 

Good Night . . . Lincoln B. Goodrich. 

Ghost — "But soft, methinks I scent the morning air." 
Song — Old Mountain Tree . . . Octette. 

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CLASS 
RECORD. 



IN SO FAR AS POSSIBLE THE SECRETARY HAS 
TRIED TO GIVE THE RECORDS OF THE CLASS IN THE 
WORDS OF EACH MEMBER. BUT AS SOME HAVE SENT 
NOTHING AND OTHERS HAVE WRITTEN PERSONAL 
LETTERS, MUCH HAS HAD TO BE SUPPLIED AND SOME 
PORTIONS OF LETTERS OMITTED. IT HAS SEEMED 
BEST NOT TO ATTEMPT, AFTER THE PRESENT SCRU- 
PULOUS HISTORICAL METHOD, TO SHOW ALL OMIS- 
SIONS AND PARAPHRASES BUT TO GIVE THE SUB- 
STANCE IN PARAGRAPHS AS CONCISE AS POSSIBLE. 
WHILE EXERCISING HIS JUDGMENT, UNDER THIS 
PLAN, IN OMISSION AND CONDENSATION, THE SECRE- 
TARY HAS NOT INTENTIONALLY CHANGED THE PHRAS- 
ING OR MEANING OF ANY OF THE LETTERS. 



GEORGE MERRIAM HYDE. 

George M. Hyde, of New York City, disappeared 
April II, 1899. On June 3rd his body was found float- 
ing in the Hudson River. The following statement 
appeared in the New York Times, of June 5: 

"On the Friday previous to Mr. Hyde's disappearance his father- 
in-law, Oliver P. Buel, died. The funeral was on Monday, April 10, 
and Mr. Hyde accompanied by his wife and mother-in-law, attended 
the burial, which took place at Troy, N. Y. He appeared to be 
greatly upset by the death of Mr. Buel and talked of it constantly. 
About I o'clock Tuesday afternoon he left the house to mail a letter 
to his sister, and did not return. He is supposed to have drowned 
himself while temporarily deranged, as his gold watch and $5 in 
money were found upon him. 

' 'Mr. Hyde was a literary critic and a contributor to The Book 
Buyer and other similar periodicals. He was married on Jan. 11, 
1899, to Miss Violet Buel, daughter of Oliver P. Buel, who was a 
member of the law firm of Buel, Toucey & Whiting." 



§INCE our last class book was issued I have been HERMAN V. AMES, 
something of a "rolling stone," and I may add, 
in the words of the old proverb, slightly changed, 
that I "have gathered" few shekels, but I have had a 
varied and on the whole an enjoyable experience. 

The year 1893-94 ^ continued at the University of 
Michigan, having charge of the work of the Professor of 
American History, during his temporary absence in 
Europe. Upon his return I determined to carry out a 
long cherished plan to spend a year or more in study 
and travel in Europe. Accordingly, the following year, 
1894-95, was passed in the Universities of Leipsic and 
Heidelberg, and the vacations in traveling over most of 
the "beaten paths" and some of the "by-ways" of 
Europe. On one of these journeys I ran across two of 
our classmates, Pierce and Coombs. The former was 
ransacking Europe in search of a "Philosopher," and 
when finally he thought he had one located in Italy, the 
wise man took his departure for another world and left 
Pierce to continue the "chase" or become a Philosopher 
himself. Coombs was encountered in charge of a 
"personally conducted party" of "his sisters, his cousins 
and his aunts," and judging from his tale of woe the expe- 
riences of the trip with fair sex may account for his not 
having followed the example of the majority of the class. 

An Amherst man was by no means a rara avis in 
Europe. The two that I saw the most of were Gates 
'90, and Brainerd '92. 

The few months after my return were passed in 
private research work, as a result of which I secured the 
prize offered by the American Historical Association for 
research work in American History. In the fall of 1897 
I came to the University of Pennsylvania, to accept my 
present position. Here Waldo and myself are doing 

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what we can to hold up the honor of '88, while our 
classmates and fellow-townsmen are doing the same in 
the city. Your humble servant is still to be numbered 
with the so-called "selfish" element of the class, who 
have found it about all they could do "in the pursuit of 
knowledge" to look after themselves, the munificence of 
our University not encouraging them to provide for 
more." 

WILLIAM H. H. "I still remain at the old stand engaged in the sale 

ANDREWS, of groceries, dry goods, etc. Our store is of moderate 
proportions, but we manage to keep quite a variety of 
articles — from a package of needles to a bag of grain. I 
still retain the postmastership, the postoffice occupying 
one corner of the store. I am also justice of the peace. 
I am a regular attendant at the village church, which is 
Congregational, am superintendent of the Sunday 
school and treasurer of the church society. We have 
one daughter, Susie Evelyn." 

LEONARD F. "I regret very much that I am unable to make my 

APTHORP. letter very entertaining. The life of a collector is not 
a wildly exciting one and the work is sadly lacking in 
variety. Such literary power of description as could 
invest it with charm or interest I must confess does not 
reside in me. However, it is a most healthful occupa- 
tion and vastly better than loafing. If only I had a wife 
and three or four children I should have ample material 
for an intensely exciting letter, but I am not a married 
man and consequently I am seriously handicapped. I 
can only send a hearty greeting to '88 and express a 
hope that later on I may be able to do better." 



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From indirect reports and from the duly filled HARMON AUSTIN, 
"statistics" there is every evidence of Austin's prosperity 
and steady progress as a business man and influential 
citizen in Warren, Ohio. 

Baker is still in Springfield, with the Merriam ASA G. BAKER. 
Company. Since the Reunion, at which he was present 
and of which he sent an appreciative letter, death has 
entered his home. Lucy Baker, the baby daughter, 
died in July last. 

"If you conscientiously conduct your business like ALBERT S. BARD, 
the recording angels that the books we no longer read used 
to keep in stock, you will pause over the entry of my 
"family history and wife's maiden name" to drop a tear 
upon the blank. All the bad bachelors who attended 
the reunion were no doubt inspired by the successes of 
their married mates; but let the others who missed these 
happy examples, take warning from your significant 
sorrow at such a record — and send, before another class 
book, grist to your mill." 

"Your second effort is at hand and I hasten to fill RALPH W. BARTLETT. 
blanks and return same to you. I have nothing in par- 
ticular to add. Am busy, more or less prosperous, 
occasionally see an Amherst man on the street, and 
have been known to attend one of the monthly lunches 
which are held here in Boston during the winter." 

"My life in New Haven is a busy one. Besides the CLARENCE WYATT 
pastoral work and numerous services, I have the musical BISPHAM. 
direction of a boy choir and special work among 
students of Yale, over 150 of whom are regular attend- 
ants of the church. I have delivered and published a 
lecture on church music, which was given at the Gen- 
eral Theological Seminary and the New Haven County 

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Convocation. Enjoyed to the utmost the Decennial. 
Shall look forward with great pleasure to reunions of 
the future. May the Class of '88 come in large numbers 
and with the same warm spirit of enthusiasm exhibited 
last summer." 

CHARLES L. BLISS. "My last letter was sent to you from Beirut, Syria, 

where for four years I had a most interesting work in 
the medical college and hospital. The severe illness of 
my wife compelled me to leave, and in the summer of 
'95 I transferred my domicile from the Syrian sun and 
dominion of the wily Turk to the humid atmosphere of 
Washington, D. C. Here I am practicing medicine. 
Whatever else this change accomplished, it enabled me 
to attend the class reunion last June and that was worth 
a four thousand mile journey. Amherst never looked 
more beautiful." 

JOHN S. BRAYTON, Jr. "Your letter received with pleasure as usual, 

although you always ask for that almighty dollar. I am 

Jack Brayton." 

WILLIAM L. BREWSTER. "In response to your request for personal notes, I 

have gone over my past record searching for sensational 
items, but really there is nothing of interest. My 
domestic record is one marriage. I have built me a 
house containing suggestions of New England in its 
architecture. I have practiced law for over seven years. 
When I started in it was with the idea of doing my 
work regardless of financial profit to myself. And the 
public took me seriously! There is no country like this 
for beauty, climate, friends, or fortune. I have been in 
the militia, the Rowing Club, Law Library, Bar Asso- 
ciation, political clubs, etc., holding some sort of office 
in each of them. You doubtless know the sort of office. 

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You try to be useful but never ornamental. Write up 
my biography to suit yourself and I will affirm it to be 
true, so long as you don't contradict the above." 

"I am a country minister, satisfied with my choice CHARLES A. BRECK. 
of a life work, and enthusiastic in its prosecution. My 
life is poor in outward circumstance or achievement, 
but rich in contentment. I am trying to be of some use 
in my corner of the world, and am very happy. 

I rarely see an '88 man and shall be eager to see the 
class book." 

"I occupy same position as at last letter; no news. WALTER E. BUNTEN. 
At the outbreak of the war I joined the New York State 
Guard and have risen to the rank of corporal. We were 
not called out, although we expected to be. But the 
war was too easy. 

The only thing to brag about is the good score I 
made at rifle practice. I got 21 out of a possible 25 at 
the 100 yds.; 37 out of a possible 50 at the 200 and 300 
yds.; 21 out of a possible 25 at the 500 yds.; and 20 out 
of a possible 25 at the 600 yds. : and this without any 
previous practice. In short, had never shot a Spring- 
field rifle in my life." 

At the time of the publication of the last class book IRVING A. BURNAP. 
Burnap was preaching at Monterey, Mass. 

Since that time he has been called to South Natick, 
where he still is. His congregation and his family are 
growing. 

"Please convey my warm greeting to all the men of FREDERICK L. 
Eighty-Eight. There is nothing new in my life work CHAPPIAN. 
worthy of report. It is made up of a great deal of 

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happiness and, as I trust, a little of usefulness. My 
greatest disappointment since leaving Amherst was 
occasioned by my inability to return for the Decennial. 
All plans were made for that long looked for event and 
were broken at the last hour by exacting business 
demands." 

WILLIAM B. CHILD. "The librarian has stayed a librarian most of the 

time these ten years. I have found the society of books 
more and more congenial as I have got to know them 
better. Familiarity truly hath not bred contempt. It 
was still among books that I went when I took the 
position of cataloguer with Macmillan & Co. in 1893. I 
was glad, however, to get back into a library again in 
1895, when I came here to take charge of the fine collec- 
tion in the Union League Club. 

In October, 1897, I was married to Miss Sykes, of 
Elkhart, Ind., and lived happily ever after." 

SIDNEY A. CLARK. "^ ^^ sorry I haven't anything new and interesting 

to add. No more babies (in my own family), only the 
same old humdrum life of hustle from morning to night, 
and sometimes from night to morning. On the whole, I 
can find no fault with existence so far. 

Enjoyed the reunion more than I can tell. It did 
seem like old times to see so many of the fellows again, 
the only thing to mar the occasion being the fact that a// 
the fellows were not there." 

WILLIAM P. CLARKE. "I am glad there is to be another class book, for I 

want to hear about each of the boys. Waldo and 
Hastings have given me a glimpse of our Decennial, with 
photograph also. 

In my life there have been no special changes of 
interest to the class. I have begun my eighth year in 

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the service of the American Board and am still located 
here in Samakov, engaged largely, as heretofore, in 
teaching, though changes in the personnel of the station 
have made some change in my work. I have not yet 
had the pleasure of a visit from any of my classmates. 
Am not married." 

"From the publication of the class book of 1893 I ZELOTES W. COOMBS, 
continued to serve as Instructor in Modern Languages 
and Registrar at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 
Worcester, Mass. In 1894 I obtained a leave of absence 
for one year and in July of that year went to Hanover, 
Germany, where I spent two months. I entered the 
University of Berlin in October, and spent two semesters 
there. Returning in September, 1895, I was rnade 
Assistant Professor of Modern Languages at the Wor- 
cester Polytechnic Institute, and have been busy there 
since. The degree of Master of Arts was obtained from 
Amherst in 1895, my thesis having been written while I 
was in Berlin. 

Life in Worcester offers plenty to do but it is hardly 
what can be called exciting. Still it is a strong Amherst 
town. 

In regard to marriage and family ties I cannot even 
report progress." 

Nothing has been heard directly from Corey for GEORGE H. COREY, 
some time. He has been since 1891 with the Ledoux 
Chemical Company in New York City. 

No word has come directly from Cornwell for some GEORGE H. CORNWELL. 
years, but through R. R. White, '89, we learn that he 
has been, as we should expect, an active and successful 
worker in the missionary field. He has not been back 
to this country since his departure in 1892. 

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J. ROFIEYN DANFORTH. "A report of five years is not easy to give but our 

secretary is inexorable and the sooner our autobiog- 
raphies drop into the letter box of '88 the less troubled 
will be our existence. 

With me the past five years have been quiet, happy, 
prosperous. In '93 I finished the first year of my first 
pastorate and my "solitary hearth" was in a hotel. But 
'98 sees the close of the first year of my second pastor- 
ate — a promotion — and I am like St. Paul in Rome in 
one respect (and only one) in that I now live "in mine 
own hired house" and am well guarded. I have wife and 
little daughter. I yield implicit obedience and we all 
three are subject to a good, faithful daughter of Hiber- 
nia, who is greatest among us though being our servant. 
Long life to Eighty-Eight!" 

WILLIAM E. DAVIDSON. "Here is "Big Dave" way up in the pine woods. 

If anyone were to look for Rudyard on the map, he 
would find it — or rather I should first say he probably 
would not find it, but if it was there at all, it would be 
way up in the eastern end of the north peninsula of 
Michigan. "What in thunder are you doing there 
Davy" did I here some one ask? Well, in the sum- 
mer time we sell land and fish for trout. As it does not 
take long to sell all the land that anybody wants to buy, 
we have plenty of time left for trout fishing. In the 
winter we lumber and shoot deer. As the state will only 
allow us to shoot deer for about three weeks, we are 
obliged to confine ourselves somewhat to business. 

If any '88 man should drift into any of the summer 
resorts around here and not let me know — well, you 
know what." 

ARTHUR V. DAVIS. "A description of my life for the last ten minutes or 

for any other ten minutes during the last ten years 

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would be all that the members of our class would require, 
for I have been doing the same thing right straight 
along ever since I left college. I varied the monotony 
of existence about four years ago by getting married, but 
that is the only marked change that has taken place in 
my condition. Your request for one dollar comes to me 
like a cold blast, but my enthusiasm for our Alma Mater 
is too great to be completely dampened by a request for 
one bone, and I herewith enclose the required amount." 

"There is nothing of interest in my life which needs HORACE W. 
a word of comment. Am living in Montclair, N. J., at I^ICKERMAN. 
No. 40 Harrison Ave., trying to attend to my business 
down here most of the time. I should like to write a 
long letter on general principles but I cannot at this 
time." 

Edwards sends the requested statistics — in his case CHARLES H. EDWARDS. 
quite brief, as he is still unmarried — but has written no 
letter. He still continues to "shine for all," however as 
one of the local representatives of the class in Amherst, 
with his office in the Town Hall. 



"At the reunion I was chiefly impressed by the JAMES EWING. 
pleasure of meeting my old friends, and discouraged by 
the clean cut evidence of decay in the College spirit. 
The boys don't seem to feel any responsibility. 

I thought the matter of raising a small fund for a 
class scholarship, among recent classes as proposed, 
ought to have been taken rather more seriously by our 
'88 men. Yale has an extensive system of that sort long 
in working order and many classes found scholarships 
as a result of it." 

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JAMES A. FAIRLEY. "Nothing much new since last report. Still unmar- 

ried, although I helped to get Woodin into the married 
state a year ago. 

We got into a fine new church building last Febru- 
ary, Lyman Abbott preaching the dedication sermon. 

With best wishes for '88, James A. Fairley." 



EDWARD F. GAGE. 



"I can add my name to the list of the members of 
'88 who thoroughly enjoyed the Decennial, or rather the 
portion my business permitted me to attend. The 
cordial good fellowship always so manifest among the 
members of '88 did much to make pleasant and enjoy- 
able a return which I had felt could have in it little but 
sadness. For in Amherst I had met and married my 
beloved wife, and in Amherst, too, in August, '97, had I 
in sorrow taken her to her last resting place. 

The class girl, my daughter Marion, is doing nicely 
and makes her home with my sister in North Andover, 
Mass. My boys are, I think, the first sons of '88 to 
become students at Amherst. They are boarding at 
Amherst and attending the public schools." 



FRANK L. GARFIELD. 



"The preacher's battle is half won, when he gets 
hold of a text that gets hold of him. To evolve a "crisp 
letter" with no more inspiring theme than information 
concerning myself — and before the next mail — requires, 
I fear, a degree of literary skill that I do not possess. I 
am five years older than when the last class book 
appeared; richer in the experience of life: better, I 
hope. I have more sermons in my barrel, my boy is 
learning to read and I have taken to the bicycle. I 
remain the pastor of my first flock — a kind, patient and 
long-suffering people. 



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My convenient location and the presence of a 
brother at Amherst during the past four years have kept 
me in touch with college life. 

The Decennial Reunion, with its hearty fellowship 
and fine, manly spirit, will always remain a delightful 
memory." 

After a pastorate of about three years in Bound LINCOLN B. 
Brook, N. J., Goodrich removed to Marlboro', Mass., GOODRICH. 
where he has been since 1896. He is the successful 
pastor of a large and important church and those who 
saw and heard him at Amherst last June speak of him 
with the same affection and respect as of old. 

"The fall of 1898 finds me still in the delightful little WILLIAM D. GOODWIN, 
city of the Berkshire Hills, and engaged in the sdme 
occupation as ten years ago— that of Assistant Principal 
and Classical Teacher in the High School. 

We are living in a comfortable cottage of our own, 
located in the suburbs on the line of an electric railway, 
and with our three children take great pleasure in our 
quiet home. 

Mrs. Goodwin and I attended the Reunion in June 
— our first visit to Amherst since my graduation. The 
familiar buildings and campus scenes, the college well, 
the clang of the same old chimes, the smile of "Prof. 
Charlie" unchanged by the years, above all the greetings 
by the well-remembered voices of classmates, and the 
words of friendly welcome from members of the faculty — 
all reminded one vividly of the Amherst of ten years ago. 
Indeed it might have seemed like returning to college 
after a summer's vacation had it not been for the scat- 
tering of bald heads in the group of "boys" who were 
there, and the added air of dignity and experience with 
which their opinions were expressed. 

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Altogether it was an occasion long to be remem- 
bered; most of all for the hopeful views and high ideals 
for Amherst College voiced by the speakers at the '88 
Banquet." 

WILLIAM B. "I have no event to record of interest to the class 

GBEENOUGH. since the last class book. I am practicing law, winning 
and losing cases, my principal client — but fortunately 
not my only one — still being the city of Providence. 

I see little of Amherst men, except Delabarre, '86, 
and Stearns, '89, with whom I spend leisure moments 
almost daily and recall the past glories and defects of 
old Amherst and wish her well for the future." 

SHATTUCK O. In the intervals between writing class letters 

HARTWELL. Hartwell has managed to keep up his work in the Kala- 
mazoo High School, of which he has been principal 
since September, 1889. The work was without special 
incident until the burning of the High School building, 
February i, 1897. After a year in cramped quarters at 
the Y. M. C. A. the school returned to a new and well 
equipped building on the old site. 

July 5, 1894, Miss Kate W. Hitchcock, of Kala- 
mazoo, became Mrs. Hartwell. One son and one 
daughter are the other members of the family. 

ROBERT W. HASTINGS. "Following my medical service in the Boston City 

Hospital, I was invited by Supt. Rowe to remain as his 
Executive Assistant, which place I filled till the time of 
my marriage. Since then we have been living quietly 
here in Brookline. Business rarely comes with a rush to 
a young physician and I have been no exception. Grad- 
ually we are coming to know people and to be recog- 
nized as of some use in the community. My spare 
moments have been pretty well filled, however, largely in 

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helping to start new enterprises. The duties of clerk 
and trustee of Leyden Church, visiting physician to 
the Boston Floating Hospital, and senior medical 
director of the Tremont Dispensary have not been light 
but at the same time they are pleasant and reveal some 
permanent results of work done in the last few years. 
As an editor of the Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry, too, 
I have been able to make for myself a trifle of reputation 
in my chosen line of children's diseases. Taken all in 
all the prospect is fair and I trust that for five years to 
come I may at least refrain from bringing discredit upon 
old '88, We very much wish that classmates who come 
to Boston will brave the mysteries of the Subway, take 
a reservoir car, and come out and call on us." 

Heard's record as Bank Examiner, banker and ARTHUR M. HEARD, 
family man is given in the Class Catalogue. He has 
added nothing to it for publication, but according to all 
accounts is working and prospering steadily in the city 
of Manchester. 

No recent message has come from Hopkins. Save E- OSBORN HOPKINS, 
for one or two serious interruptions by illness he has 
been teaching steadily since graduation and has been for 
the last five years principal of the High School at Hol- 
brook, Mass. 

The last word from Gus was of regret that he could AUGUSTUS S. 
not attend the Decennial. Legal work in New York, as HOUGHTON, 
a partner with Clarence, has filled his time since 1892, 
although, like most of the class, he has found time to get 
married, becoming a Benedict in 1896. 

"I believe in my advice of a few years past I told of CLARENCE S. 
my marriage to Miss Suzanne Clark, of Louisville, Ky., HOUGHTON, 
which occurred December 19, 1895, ^"^^ that on Novem- 

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ber i6, i8g6, a daughter was born to us, Evelyn Clare 
Houghton. She is now getting to be quite a young lady. 
The year following my marriage was spent in Europe, 
traveling and settling up the estate of my wife's father, 
who, before his death in London, was largely interested 
in South Africa in connection with Dr. Jameson and 
Cecil Rhodes. 'Gus' and I are still striving for money 
and fame at the old stand, now removed to 50 Broadway. 
To assist in the push up that much talked of ladder of fame 
we have lately added to our number the Hon. Thomas 
Fitch, of California, who now heads our firm. In addition 
to the above, on the first of last April (1898) I received the 
appointment of Assistant U. S. District Attorney' for the 
Southern District of New York, and consequently this 
section of the country is safe for a time. Of the missing 
members mentioned in your circular, I occasionally see 
Judson; he is with a law firm in this city, and as his arm 
is now said to be well, he is reported to be getting along 
very successfully. I also see Harry Wilkinson quite 
often. He is the same handsome boy as of old, and I 
hear that the government depends upon him whenever 
it wishes to dispose of a new bond issue. He is with 
Harvey Fisk & Son, 32 Nassau St., N. Y. City." 

ELLERY C. Ellery appends to his letter in regard to the ban- 

HUNTINGTON. quet: "My class record stands as before; no more 
children." He is still instructor in Greek in the Univer- 
sity of Nashville, and occasionally, as last summer, gets 
north for vacation. 

FREDERICK S. HYDE. "Your letter reached me some time since and found 

me in good health and spirits. I make it a point, 
however, to cause letters to wait answering at least a 
month, to allow their contents to become thoroughly 
assimilated before attempting an answer; especially 

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when such a letter contains, as so many of them do, a 
request for what has been felicitously called "that which 
cheers but does not inebriate." I enclose order as per 
statement rendered. Your letter reminds me of that 
picture of Du Maurier, where a sentimentalizing girl 
exclaims to the poet: "tell me more about yourself." I 
have filled out so many life-insurance blanks, savings- 
bank applications — thelatter for a cousin of mine — that I 
have the answer on my tongue's end: Nose, long; eyes, 
keen; hair, thin; etc. I can also recall without recourse 
to pencil and paper the date of my birth: it was in 1866, 
the same year, you will recall at once, that gave to us 
Rudyard Kipling and Richard Le Gallienne, in fact, 
several of us were born that year. My parents were 
humble, though poor, and I am trying to carry on the 
good work. No great honors have come to me, largely 
on account of my not having the gall to shape the times 
in which I live: in fact my greatness has not been 
recognized outside of my immediate family. Here, 
hov/ever, I make up for it by advertising myself to my 
fullest capacity." 

"After post-graduate study at Yale my experiences in GEORGE M. HYDE. 
the Northwest were far too crisp, as Brother Hartwell 
hath it, for compression into a single page. Suffice it 
that I taught and lectured and scribbled; that I froze 
my ears, which were already sufficiently large for every 
practical purpose; and that I narrowly escaped extinc- 
tion in the folding-bed that I subsequently left in part 
payment of rent with the gentleman who had shrewdly 
induced me to purchase it. 

In New York, since June, 1896, I have fared some- 
what better, being in a position of arduous industry from 
which I cannot wriggle out. I have to write for my 
living — mostly for the newspapers." 

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Since the above was written last fall Hyde has been 
married to Miss Violet MacDougall Buel, of New York 
City. 

HAROLD H. JACOBS. "The Jacobs family is still a quartette, the males 

being in a hopeless minority; hope to improve statistics 
by next time to report. 

"The best time in my life" is a mild way to express 
my good time at our Decennial. I felt like a tired 
traveler come home to rest, and actually it was a hard- 
ship for me to make up my mind to leave that good old 
town and had any of the other fellows remained I should 
probably have still been there. When I say "I" of 
course I mean "we" — you understand all ye Benedicts." 

ALBERT H. JACKSON. "Your numerous letters asking for impressions of the 

Reunion have all been received. I would have responded 
long ago, but have been sick for two months. 
I can only say that every minute of my stay in Amherst 
was delightful. There have been so few changes in the 
appearance of the college buildings and grounds that it 
requires very little effort to forget the interval of ten 
years and imagine myself a student again, although I 
had no desire to repeat my college experience. Looking 
back upon the past has more of solemnity than pleasure 
for me. Yet it was genuine pleasure to meet the boys 
and feel that they had left that past behind, and that we 
were still traveling side by side, if not in actual juxtapo- 
sition, yet in experience and mental growth. I presume 
we were all anxious to compare notes and see what we 
had made of our talents and how we had increased them. 
The opportunity for this was not as good as might have 
been desired. But perhaps each one indulged, as I 
did, in a few casual thoughts about the changes that had 

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taken place within himself and the consequent change in 
his attitude toward the college." 

"I was in private practice for about four years and P^^ED B. JEVETT. 
then went back to hospital work again. I am now at 
the State Hospital for Insane as Deputy Superintendent. 
My family relations have not changed any except that 
my boy has arrived at that animated question mark age 
and every little while gives me a twinge of that old col- 
lege feeling, wonder as to the next question and whether 
I shall have to "flunk" it or not. I like the work here 
very well. My love for athletics I have revived some- 
what by establishing "Field Day" for the patients, besides 
a game of base ball now and then. You may remember 
that music was a favorite pastime with me, and that I 
have indulged by organizing a band and orchestra. 

My impressions of the Reunion were most favorable. 
I enjoyed all — the initial flutter of curious anticipation as 
one of the huckleberry trains of the Massachusetts Cen- 
tral pulled into its station, through the hand shake of 
classmates and professors to the indescribably lonesome 
feeling as we watched one after another depart. There 
seems to be abundant class spirit as yet and aside from 
more hair here, or less there, or increase of adipose 
tissue, the change was not marked. One thing that 
was really amusing was to compare the responsibility of 
men at present with the schemes to "get out" of things 
and the pranks of college days." 

Five years ago Judson was in practice in Minneap- LUCIUS E. JUDSON. 
olis, but finding that driving young city too slow he 
migrated a few years ago to New York where he is 
prospering in the same profession and, apparently, like 
many of his coworkers, finds no time to write letters 

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save for his clients. The Secretary has heard nothing 
from him these many moons though several classmates 
report seeing him within the year. 

DAVID L. KEBBE. "I have not much that is crisp to tell you. For eight 

years since senior year in Yale Divinity School, I. have 
been trying to do the varied work that falls to the pastor 
of a small church. Five of those years at Southwick, 
Mass., and three here in this delightful city of Spring- 
field. Nothing but hard work will tell nowadays in the 
work of a pastor. He really has to be the business 
manager of the Church, I mean a small church of course. 
Financial, social, and above all spiritual lines demand his 
attention and inspiration. He has to try to lead those 
who are in the wrong into the right, to persuade those 
who love and enjoy the things of the world to give them 
up because there are higher things to love and enjoy, 
and that alone can give true satisfaction. The pastor 
cannot drive, he can only lead and persuade and when 
one has started on the good way, encourage and help. 
This has been my work for eight years; a grand work it 
is. Emmanuel Church before this reaches you is 
ten years old and those ten years have been years 
of struggle and the years to come will be like them; 
but more hopeful times are coming. The city is 
growing out to us and the new people are 
coming in to help us. The work has never been so 
hopeful as now. I hope you all are meeting with suc- 
cess in your various callings. Patient, hard work, I am 
sure will bring to us all success. I wish you all joy, not 
only in your work but in your homes. It was very 
pleasant to see so many of the fellows at Amherst last 
June. I wish you all could have been there. I missed 
those who could not come. I think we have improved 
since '88 and hope we all shall go right on improving." 

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''The five years past have been of progress rather WALLACE H. LEONARD, 
than change. Commercially I have advanced from stool 
and table to arm-chair and roll-top. The growth of my 
retinue has necessitated removal from a house which 
was little to one which is only small. Of honors I have 
acquired none and of tangible possessions few, my 
chief asset at date being a growing fund of domestic 
contentment. The ambitions which mock my useful 
toil are not dangerous. 

I hope on business trips not to be too hurried to call 
on the '88 men in towns I visit, and that they when in 
Philadelphia will look me up. 

I hope to publish to a waiting world for "Shorty," 
or Jim Ewing, or other medic pedagogue of our number, 
some noble work which shall make us famous. I hope 
to send at least one scion to Amherst, and, more fre- 
quently than once in ten years, to visit the old town 
myself." 

McLennan is another of the silent bankers. He LOUIS W. McLENNAN. 
has been in Afton, Iowa, in the banking business for the 
last five years. 

"Ten years seem a long time, but despite them, I EDWARD L. MARSH, 
could imagine myself packing up to return to Amherst 
for another term. Those four years seem "red letter" 
days indeed. There is seldom a day I do not think of 
them. I was not able to attend the Reunion last June 
and the disappointment is still keen. I think it is fortu- 
nate that in these ten years so few have been taken from 
us. I remember how rudely and terribly Sam Brooks' 
death impressed me coming so soon after we had grad- 
uated. Parsons has gone since. Besides these I know 
of no others and hope our remaining number may be 

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intact for many a year. If you are interested in the facts 
of my life during these ten years, they are these: 

I entered Yale Divinity School the Fall of '88 and 
spent three delightful years there. After that I went to 
Andover Theological School for a graduate year. During 
that year I was called to the pastorate of the Congrega- 
tional Church in Yarmouth, Mass., and began work 
there July, '92. I continued the pastor of that church 
until December, '96, when I was called to Waterviile, 
Me., where I now reside. 

November 28, '93, I married Miss Mary E. Jenkins, 
of West Barnstable, Mass,, and July 28, '98 a daughter, 
Elizabeth White, was born to us." 

WILLIAM D. HARSH. "You have written to me several times. Tonight I 

received a letter from you, asking for a few facts about 
my life. After I left the seminary in Chicago, I came 
up here into the Adirondacks, and in obedience to our 
Lord's command — "Go ye into all the world and preach 
the gospel to every creature," have spent the past four 
or five years in evangelistic work, twenty miles from a 
railroad. For two years I was pastor of a Congrega- 
tional church. Since then I have preached in school 
houses in outside districts as opportunity has oSered. I 
have no salary but live on a little of my own, with what 
the people offer from time to time. In October, 1897, I 
was married to Lillian Sawyer, a member of our church. 
She has proved an active worker in this field. Our 
union was blessed last summer by a baby boy, now four 
months old, whose name is John — he is over two feet 
long and weighs twenty pounds. Adirondack air is 
good for the human race. These mountains sweep up 
from their foot hills near Saratoga past Schroon Lake to 
the majestic mountains of the Marcy group a mile high. 

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Here lie millions of acres of forest land, broken by 2000 
lakes — it is the Switzerland of America. We have deer, 
bears and many other wild animals only a little way from 
our homes. The people are poor — raise enough to exist 
on and earn a little more from the summer tourists, who 
mainly support this region." 

"Since the publication of last Class Book, I have CHARLES W. 
been in New Britain as assistant principal and science MARSHALL, 
teacher in the High School. There is not much to 
record as a result of these five years' efforts. I have 
gained more in experience than in any other way, but 
have little fault to find. On April i8th, 1894, my boy, 
Donald Earle, was born. My home life has been happy; 
we have been free from sickness, and we manage to 
extract considerable pleasure from life." 

Those who were at the Reunion know that John is jOHN H. MILLER, 
just the same as of old. After writing a full account of 
the Decennial he forgot to say anything about himself. 
Almost all the time for the last ten years he has been in 
business in Cincinnati — for a long time with the Inland 
Oil Company and for the last two years as one of the 
partners and officers in the Iridian Paint Company. He 
is still a member of his father's household. 

Montague is a rising business man of LaCrosse, Wis. WALLACE R. 
He writes: "I was very sorry that I could not go down MONTAGUE, 
to the Reunion last June, but June is a very busy month, 
the worst month of the year to be away, in the line of 
business with which I am at present connected." 

"After graduating from Yale Divinity School in WARREN J. MOULTON. 
1893 I remained for a year and a half as resident 
fellow. In the spring of '95 I went to Germany and for 

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three and a half years had headquarters in Gottingen. 
Having spent a semester or so on the language and 
things in general I decided to undertake work looking 
toward the doctor's degree and completed this with the 
final examination June 29, 1898. There is always a 
goodly number of Amherst men in Gottingen whose 
presence helps to reconcile one to the gloomy days 
which prevail now just as in the age of Tacitus. Thayer, 
'86, was my room-mate. At present I am assistant in 
the Semitic and Biblical department here at Yale with 
an appointment as instructor for next year. And still 
after all these years you must enroll me among the few 
unfortunates who can only read the "family history" of 
their classmates, but write none for them to read." 

WILLIAM B. NOYES. <<i have the urgent notes concerning the class book 

filed in a conspicuous place and have anxiously looked 
at them several times a day, hoping for inspiration. My 
history is a negative one. The first three or four years 
of medical life mean active hustling and efforts success- 
ful or only partially successful to stamp one's person- 
ality into the consciousness of our town or city, that all 
the neighborhood may realize after two or three years 
that we exist; that a few individuals may form them- 
selves into a cult or combination, who agree in regarding 
us as their medical adviser. Lastly, inside of the three 
years from graduation from medical school, one rather 
expects to do or write something that will excite favor- 
able comment among the medical profession of the city 
and enlighten them about our existence. After these 
initial years have passed events move more slowly. 
Men differ in their progress in any profession. Matri- 
mony is a fair testimonial to the world that a moderate 
degree of success has come to the one who attempts it. 

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I have moved but once, a few weeks ago, making 
a change of location from 162 W. 73d street to 122 W. 
58th street. I do not think that Amherst men of '88 see 
much of each other. But the general loyalty of 
Amherst men of neighboring classes is greater than 
ever." 

After a number of years with N. W. Harris & Co. JOHN E. OLDHAM. 
John last year changed his connections and is now to be 
found with Poor & Greenough, Devonshire street, 
Boston. The years have brought him substance in 
many ways. He resides at Wellesley Hills. 

Osborne wrote last spring that he hoped to be in ARTHUR D. OSBORNE, 
active service and if possible in Cuba, at the time of the 
Reunion. But a card has since been received from him 
noting a change of address in Somerville, so that he is 
probably continuing the medical studies begun a year or 
two since at the Medical School of Tufts College. 

Palmer writes, under recent date: "I commenced MARION M. 
the study of law in December, 1888; was admitted to PALMER, Esq. 
practice in the courts of this state in February, 1891; 
have ever since my admission practised law at the above 
address" (as a member of the firm of Crosby & Palmer). 

"I have as yet never merited any great honor or 
dishonor." 

Unless the trustees of Amherst shall have selected a WILLIAM F. PEIRCE. 
president from among our number, Peirce is the only 
one of the class who has as yet attained the dignity 
of college president. He has been the popular and suc- 
cessful president of Kenyon since 1896, as for four years 
before he had been the successful professor of Philoso- 
phy in the same institution. While sending informa- 

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tion about one or two others, he also has forgotton to 
tell of himself. 

WILLSON H. FERINE. Ferine has been for some years in the grain com- 

mission business in Kansas City, Mo. He is in partner- 
ship with his brother, H. B. Ferine, '86. He was at the 
Reunion and reported a very good time. 

PAUL C. PHILLIPS. "The quinquennial class book left me earning a 

livelihood by building up the bodies of men in lower 
New York and spending it by cutting up others at 59th 
St. Result, after a lively struggle between credit and 
debit, a sheepskin giving me carte blanche at the cutting 
up business and a better opportunity for building up. 

The fall of '95 found me in the "Windy City" as the 
result of a position offered, and other attractions. The 
result of the attractions was the reduction by one, of the 
people in the world, on June 16, '96. This reduction 
has since been atoned for. See family list. 

The fall of '96 witnessed a call from the trustees to 
help support "Old Doc's" hands here in the college and 
it has been my great pleasure to do so ever since. 
Nothing will give me greater pleasure than greeting the 
sons of '88 on the floor of Pratt Gymnasium." 

ARTHUR H. PIERCE. Fierce is still resident as Kellogg Fellow at 

Amherst. He planned and carried through the musi- 
cal portion of the Reunion celebrations and his descrip- 
tion thereof is to be found in the other portion of this 
volume. He, too, ranks in the list of modest "self-for- 
getters." 

WILLIAM M. PREST. Frest continues to practice law in Boston. His 

contribution is contained in Fart I. 

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Same description as for Prest, save the amendment FRANK E. RAHSDELL. 
"preach in Cambridge" for "practice law in Boston." 

At Commencement time last year Raymond was CHARLES B. RAYMOND. 
undergoing the change from an important officer in the 
Goodrich Hard Rubber Co. to Akron manager for the 
American Rubber Co., in other words he was helping 
form a trust. So he was missed from the place he had 
hoped to fill at the Reunion. 

The world seems to be going well with him and he 
declares he will surely be at the next gathering of '88. 

There is really nothing for me to write for the class LEONARD B. RICHARDS, 
book. The only dignity or honor that I possess in 
addition to that of being a Priest of the Church is 
that I am now Rural Dean of the Jacksonville Deanery. 
This then is the way the case stands with me. 

Rev. Leonard Burbank Richards, A. C. '88; Grad- 
uated Philadelphia Divinity School, 'gi; Ordained Dea- 
con by Bishop Potter Trinity Sunday, '91; Priest by 
Bishop Coleman Saturday in Easter week, 1892; served 
as assistant to the Rev. T. K. Conrad, D. D. June 
1891 — October 1892; Rector St. Stephen's, Staten 
Island, November '92 to May '95; Rector Trinity 
Church, Jacksonville, 111., September '95 to date; 
elected Provisional Deputy to General Convention at the 
Diocesan Synod of '97, and Rural Dean of Jacksonville 
Deanery in November '98. 

Was married June 14, 1893, to Eva May, daughter 
of the late Edmund B. Benjamin, of New York. That 
is the record to date." 

"There is little to record in my case since the issue JAMES G. RIGGS. 
of the last class book, my address as superintendent of 
schools remaining as above. In the summer of '96 I was 

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abroad for a wheeling trip in England and Scotland. 
Aside from attendance at educational gatherings and the 
giving of a lecture occasionally, the even tenor of my 
way is undisturbed. I have edited an edition of the 
Vicar of Wakefield in the Students Series of English 
Classics, which is hereby advertised. I am unmarried, 

but . 

The Reunion in June was a great gathering for '88. 
The boys were just the same, though I heard some of 
them called papa." 

ALBERT B. RIPLEY. "I am really ashamed of myself for not writing you 

before now but I've been such a jack of all trades that 
I've not even written to anyone. You of course know 
that I've been an actor, but now, after seeing all of 
Canada and the United States as far west as Denver 
I've decided that New York is good enough for me. I 
am now an attendance officer for the Board of Educa- 
tion. Addison Allen and L. E. Judson are the only 
fellows I have seen in years. They are both doing 
excellently." 

JOHN B. ROGERS. "The open letter is just received. I see you 

are anxious for a complete "family list." I am sorry 
that I can not be on the list for I am still a bachelor 
with no prospect of any change. However, though I 
have no babies of my own, I am trying to aid society by 
helping other people's babies into the world. As an 
uncle of mine terms it I am Medicus with strong accent 
on the last syllable. Am at present at the California 
Woman's Hospital, 31 18 Sacramento Street, San Fran- 
cisco, finishing my term of service at the City and 
County Hospital. I have been extremely dilatory in 
finishing my share of class statistics, so will say that I 
graduated in medicine a year ago last December, stand- 

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ing first in a class of 37. Have been in hospital most of 
the time ever since, but expect to work for myself 
instead of others after this year. In ten years I have 
not seen one of the boys and during that time have 
heard but little. California is a long way off from the 
rest of the country." 

Sessions has of late been impervious to all appeals ROBERT H. SESSIONS, 
for "copy." I take the following from a letter of John 
Miller: 

"Bob's condition and prosperity seem to be pretty 
much the same as five years ago. He is working hard, 
as he used to at whatever he set his heart on. He is 
still in the coal business and his company is probably 
one of the leaders in the local market. I judge he is 
making his share of money. He has one daughter, now 
about four years old." 

"I fear I am unable at present writing to give you GEORGE N. SEYMOUR, 
any history of myself that would be of much interest to 
our class. Since graduation I have been located so far 
away from a college atmosphere and have been so 
engrossed in my own affairs, which have a way of 
increasing rather than diminishing as the years go by, 
that I can hardly be classed as "up to date" in matters 
of mutual interest to us all. In fact, I am fast becom- 
ming a "back number." I have been in Elgin the whole 
time since graduation and have been during all that time 
controller of the destinies of the Elgin State Bank. 
This one thing I have done. I have literally grown up 
with the people here, for the country in '88 was indeed a 
new one. Our affairs have gradually adjusted them- 
selves to the increased demands upon us, and the future 
looks bright for my adopted home. My family consists 

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of my wife and daughter, now nearly six years old. We 
live in the outskirts of the village, where I operate a 
farm and raise cattle and hogs, which gives me a change 
from the otherwise confining life of the bank. In 
common with others we have hopes for greater things 
but at the same time we get a great deal out of this as 
we go along. I still have a soft spot in my heart which 
is always touched by the memory of college days. It 
was with great regret that I gave up my trip to Amherst 
for the '88 Decennial, on account of my affairs so shap- 
ing themselves that such a move was impossible. I 
think I shall not let such another chance slip if it is ever 
offered me." 

CLIFTON L. SHERMAN. "For two years after 1888 I was with the Springfield 

Union, as news editor. Was present at the pioneer 
meeting of the Amherst Alumni Association of the 
Connecticut Valley. Early in 1890, I left the Union to 
become news editor of the Hartford Courani, the oldest 
paper of continuous publication in the United States. 
After a service of two years in that capacity I became 
managing editor, which position I have held since, over 
six years. If the class secretary did his duty he would 
"blue pencil" anything further, so I will save him the 
trouble by putting the "end mark" on here myself. Am 
hardly in form now for that mile walk, "my young buck- 
o," as the old Scotch trainer used to say. Should have to 
train down about 30 pounds." 

WALTER F. SKEELE. "Nothing new since last letter. I think my last 

spoke of my illness two years ago with typhoid. Have 
been well ever since. Spent the summer a year ago in 
Elgin, and saw a good many of the Amherst boys in 
Chicago. Last June was appointed dean (which means 
director in this country) of the College of Music of the 

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University of Southern California. There are a good 
many Amherst men here." 

Jack Smith has married and has migrated from JOHN E. sniTH. 
Worcester to Newton Centre, Mass. Nothing has 
been directly received from him for some time. 

"Your letter has been lying on my desk unanswered "V^^ILLARD P. SMITH, 
for some time. I can find nothing in my experience 
that would be interesting to the other members of the 
class. I have been practicing law in Buffalo since 1892 
and occasionally see some of the boys. Jackson lives in 
Buffalo and has a very fine position in the office of the 
Corporation Council of this city. He goes under the 
name of deputy city attorney, while I have not yet 
advanced beyond that of notary public. With this title, 
however, I try to keep the wolf from the door and have 
so far succeeded. During the summer of 1897 I had the 
good fortune to travel in Europe and saw quite a good 
deal of Norway, -Sweden and Russia, going as far east as 
Moscow. I saw Judson in New York about two weeks 
ago and found that he is still troubled with a glass arm. 
In regard to the Reunion, my impression was that it 
lacked a Mr. Cook to personally conduct the class to the 
many new resorts about Amherst. I was personally 
conducted over the new trolley line by Bill Prest, who 
had his expenses paid by using one of his Boston flim- 
flam coins. I think our next reunion could be improved 
by the organization of an entertainment and excursion 
committee. I enjoyed the Reunion very much and 
made up my mind I would make an effort to attend the 
next one. I have even decided to buy a heavy pair of 
shoes and set them aside so that if it is necessary I can 
walk to the next reunion." 

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ARTHUR F. STEARNS. "I am still in Lakewood. It is an ideal place in 

which to spend the winter, and the change to Amherst 
in the summer time furnishes all the variety necessary. 
This place is widely advertised as a "health resort," and 
so, naturally, it would not be necessary to have much 
snow. But we have all the more skating on that 
account, and it is possible to play golf nearly all winter. 
My work is not hard, at least it becomes more pleasant 
as I become more accustomed to it." 

GEORGE P. STEELE. Steele has been in business in Painesville, O., ever 

since graduation. He was present at the Reunion and 
has since helped the secretary to obtain information 
about some others, but gives none of himself save such 
as is contained in the "catalogue." 

CHARLES SULLIVAN. After some years of practice in Chicago, Sullivan 

removed to New York, about two years ago; married a 
wife a little later and "could not come" to the Decen- 
nial; and has not since been heard from. 

GEORGE S. TENNEY.. "Nothing new." 

The following in regard to Thompson is taken from 
the Student of January 21, 1899; 
GARRETT V. "The music at the vesper service last Sunday after- 

noon was exceptionally fine. The special feature was 
the organ-playing of Mr. Garret W. Thompson, of the 
class of Eighty-eight. Seldom has this service been so 
generally attended; the body of the Church was well 
filled with students and their friends, and even the side 
pews were occupied. 

After the service, at the request of many in the 
audience, Mr. Thompson played additional selections 
which greatly added to the enjoyment of the portion of 
the audience that remained after the regular service was 

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ended. Mr. Thompson did not take an active part in 
musical life while in College, but after his graduation 
went abroad and studied music in Berlin, For seven 
years he has been a teacher in the Friends' Central School, 
of Philadelphia, where he is head professor of Latin and 
Greek. Nearly all of the men in College who come 
from Philadelphia were led to select Amherst through 
his instrumentality. Mr. Thompson is considered one 
of the finest organists in Philadelphia, and regularly 
plays in the Fifth Baptist Church." 

"As to myself I can tell you nothing new. I am EDWARD:B. VAILL. 
practicing law in partnership here, under the firm name 
of Breck & Vaill, and have been for the last five years. 
I am still unmarried, with no intentions along that line." 

"Business took me to Massachusetts in the spring CLYDE W. VOTAW. 
of this year (1898), and I had a brief but very pleasant 
visit in Amherst, refreshing memories and renewing 
acquaintances. Unfortunately, this was three months 
too early for the Decennial Class Reunion, and I was 
unable to go east again so soon.. I saw a number of the 
classmates, however, in New York and Philadelphia. 

My work at the University of Chicago is of course 
broadening and deepening from year to year, and sub- 
stantial advancement is given as time goes on. I find 
the mass of Christians ready and waiting for a recon- 
struction of Christianity such as will give expression to 
modern investigation, modern education and modern 
experience. The change will set us forward incalculably 
toward the realization of the ideal of Jesus. It is a 
great privilege to work in this movement, which means 
quite as much to this century as the Protestant Refor- 
mation meant to the sixteenth century. 

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I am now at work upon my fourth published volume, 
this time a book upon "The History of the Apostolic 
Age." It belongs to the Macmillan Series of New Testa- 
ment Handbooks, and will be issued in the autumn of 
1899. 

Bicycling is my great resource for physical exercise; 
tennis is tame beside it. I rode last year three centu- 
ries, the quickest one inside of ten hours. There is 
nothing like it for variety and excitement, for ridding 
the mind of the common problems and cares. I am in 
perfect health. So also is my family. Call and see how 
happy we are and how glad we shall be to see you." 

EDWARD H. WALDO. Since 1894 Waldo has been an instructor in the 

department of electrical engineering of the University 
of Pennsylvania. He has sent no recent news of him- 
self, though he has been very helpful in securing infor- 
mation regarding some of the derelicts. 

In these days of activity in copper the duties of 
superintendent for "Calumet and Hecla" fill Sam's time. 
He sends the following: 
SAMUEL D. WARRINER. "I regret that I have unavoidably been so delayed 

beyond the time in sending you the data. It is too late 
now for a letter, but a check to cover my indebtedness is 
still welcome. A secretary's lot is not a happy one, is 
it?" 

ELBRIDGE C. WHITING. "Since my last class letter, I have transferred my 

residence from the West to the East, coming back to my 
native soil. Massachusetts is a good state to live in, 
even though many of its inhabitants are gospel hard- 
ened. I have now a family of five — one good wife and 
girl triplets — although they were born at different times 
as you can see from the records. We have been in 
excellent health and spirits all through the years. 

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When I left Minneapolis I stored my household goods 
in a storage warehouse and one night they went up in 
smoke and down in ashes. Being near Boston I see 
Prest, Oldham, Bartlett and Ramsdell occasionally. 
They look as young as ever and seem full of activity and 
life. This summer I took a bicycle trip abroad, travel- 
ing 1400 miles on my wheel. I found the roads good 
everywhere. I went through England, Scotland, 
France, Switzerland, the Black Forest of Germany and 
down the Rhine to its mouth. It was the most profita- 
ble experience of my life and I had an excellent oppor- 
tunity to see the various countries. 

My impression of the Reunion at Amherst is a 
delightful one. The boys have grown no older, as far 
as I could see, nor are they any handsomer. Most of 
them seemed to have settled down to life's work with an 
air of determination and zeal worthy of a victorious foot 
ball team." 

Wilbar has been in the banking and brokerage CHARLES B. VILBAR. 
business since graduation. He was in Boston until 
1894, then tried New York and Providence, each for a 
short time, but came back to Boston and started in 
business for himself in 1897. 

He disappointed the boys in not reaching Amherst 
for Commencement and no recent word has been 
received. 

In 1893, in the Class Book, is recorded Wilkinson's HENRY L. WILKINSON, 
prophecy that he could find some one to share his 
fortune and estate. He has, and the Reunions at 
Amherst know him no more. 

He is still with Harvey Fisk & Sons, although living 
at Bridgeport, Conn. 

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HERBERT P. WOODIN. ''Since our Reunion in '93 some important changes 

have come into my life. In September of '94, after three 
pleasant years of theological practicing on a most patient 
and devoted little congregation in the Berkshire Hills, I 
was called to Amenia, N. Y. and ran the gauntlet of an 
examination before the Presbytery. After very much 
discussion and considerable doubt as to my orthodoxy, 
in the words of our clerk: "having passed through these 
trials successfully," I was finally installed as a Presby- 
terian pastor October 26th, '95. 

January last I did the rash thing of abandoning 
freedom and single blessedness, by taking a wife from 
my own church, and I have had no cause to regret the 
action; in fact, I was then truly wedded to my parish, for 
I became related to every one through my wife. 
Receiving last August a unanimous call to the Congre- 
gational Church at Chicopee, I have returned to that 
denomination and to the old familiar scenes in the 
vicinity of Amherst. I meet Garfield and Kebbe 
frequently, and would be glad to welcome others of '88 
to the parsonage at 50 Fairview Ave. I think the 
Decennial was by all odds the best class gathering we 
ever attended. The spirit shown was excellent." 

JOHN D. WRIGHT. Wright has been very successful with his school for 

the deaf, and is fast making a name for himself in that 
line of work. No news — other than statistics — has come 
recently. 



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NON- 
GRADUATES. 



NON- 
GRADUATES. 

ADDISON ALLEN. *'Quod contra legem fit pro infecto habetur. Ergo, 

I am 

' 'Mastering the lawless science of our law, 
That codeless myriad of precedents, 
That wilderness of single instances," 

and never grow hungry, for the statutes have plenty of 

provisions in them." 

LEONARD W. BACON, Jr. No information has been received in regard to 

Bacon since we graduated, except that he is practicing 
medicine in New Haven. 

JOHN N. BLAIR. Blair has been practicing law in New York City 

since 1891 and is a member of the firm of Blair & Rudd. 
He is still a bachelor and enjoys life at the Benedick, in 
Washington Square. 

GEORGE H. Brockway is said to have studied medicine in 

BROGKWAY. g^ffalo and to have taken his degree in 1891. A little 
later he married a Providence girl, but has since been 
out of the ken of his former classmates. 

ERNEST G. "Since leaving New York City in February, 1895, for 

CARLETON, '59. ^^^ frontier mining camp of Bisbee, Ariz., I have of 
course seen but few Amherst men but have managed to 
keep informed somewhat of the college and my class- 
mates. Served three years as assistant surgeon to a 
mining corporation and railroad, and am now in the 
same business in this out of the way place where news 
is scarce, Spanish the language and customs primitive. 
Have not been east since leaving, nor have I yet seen 
California. You will notice that I am not married and 
have no titles but plain M. D." 

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Esty has been assistant professor of electrical WILLIAM ESTY, '59. 
engineering in the University of Illinois since 1896 and 
has been doing notable work both as a teacher and an 
investigator. He was married some years ago and has 
a daughter, born March 15th of this year. 

"My career since '93 has not been very eventful. In EDWIN P. GLEASON. 
'93 and '94 it was my privilege to serve the paupers of 
Maynard, Mass., in the capacity of town physician, and 
the citizens of the town as a member of the board of 
health. Then I spent a year in Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea, 
a suburb of Brooklyn, N. Y., but as it was difficult to 
get good pie and impossible to get good beans, I moved 
back to Massachusetts, and am now pleasantly located 
in Brockton, the most energetic, progressive and best 
all around shoe city in the world. 

I was married August 28, 1895, to Miss Sadie Louise 
Harlow, of Whitman, Mass. 

Although not yet wealthy, I have done very well 
and would have done better had not an epidemic of 
health prevailed here for the past year or two. 

I have written a few articles for publication which I 
still have in manuscript form, due no doubt to my fore- 
thought in always enclosing stamps for return postage. 
Finally in desperation I started a small paper which 
publishes my effusions without question; for, as I am 
the editor, my articles invariably escape the blue 
pencil." 

"I am very glad to hear of the proposed publication ALBERT P. GOODWIN, 
and am only sorry that I cannot contribute any interest- 
ing material. The Reunion was a great success and 
thoroughly enjoyed by all. My own impressions would 
be more roseate had I not been feeling the effects of an 
approaching attack of typhoid fever, which has laid me 

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up all summer. In spite of that I am going to the next 
reunion if I am above the sod. They are too good to 
miss." 

HAROLD R. GRIFFITH. Griffith has been practicing law in New York City 

since 1892, and, presumably, keeping up the literary 
work for which he always had so strong a bent. 
According to the Yale registrar his address is still 32 
Nassau street. 

JOHN HAYNES. After some years of teaching, Haynes went to Johns 

Hopkins, where he secured the doctor's degree. From 
1 895- 1 898 he taught History in the Norwich (Conn.) 
Free Academy; since that time he has had a similar 
position in the Boston Latin School. 

ARTHUR fl. LITTLE. "I am making a bad matter as little bad as possible 

by sending with belated speed the statistics you ask for. 
The letter was mislaid, and came in the same mail as 
one from the Yale Class Secretary who wishes such 
information for his Decennial next June. It was not 
until today that I found your letter again — my room has 
been papered and the hanger (who should be in the 
passive and not active voice; as it was his activity 
took the form of mischief) did not have my combination 
for arranging papers, and forgot to loan me his — and it 
was only today that I saw for the first time your plans 
for an earlier book. I had thought that both of you 
were taking time by the forelock for June." 

GEORGE A. HERRITT. Administrations do not interfere with George. He 

is still in the Amherst postoffice where, as of old, he has 
stamps at two cents each and a hearty greeting for all 
the boys who return. 

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''Your circular asking for additional information con- GEORGE H. NEWHAN. 
cerning the members of the class of '88, and their fami- 
lies, received. I have some members to report. That 
there may be no mistake made I will report the names of 
all our children: George Clark Newman, Roberta Lee 
Newman, John Hillier Newman, Marie Antoinette 
Newman. 

The circular promising so many good things at the 
Commencement makes one very uneasy, especially when 
he knows he cannot attend. I hope that the efforts of 
'88 may be a grand success, and with such men they 
cannot be anything else." 

(Received in spring of '98). 

No information has been received from Niblock CHARLES B. NIBLOCK. 
directly. He is in business in Chicago. 

"My Dear Mr. Secretary: FREDERICK H. PAINE. 

I am very glad to hear from you. 

I am constantly reminded of Amherst and the class 
of '88 by my very good friends. Dr. Ewing and Dr. 
Noyes, whom I see very often. '88 is very much alive in 
New York City. 

I am still in a state of single cussedness and feel 
that excuses are in order but I haven't any. 

I have been often tempted to give up teaching for 
the law, but here I am still a pedagogue. I like it. 

With very best wishes for all the class, 
Yours most sincerely, 

Frederick H. Paine." 

Plumb graduated in 1891 and has since studied for ALBERT H. 
the ministry and was ordained lately in his father's PLUMB, Jr. '91. 
church at Roxbury. A recent letter says that he 
returned from the Orient to better his equipment for •. 

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foreign missionary work. He is now preaching at Peru, 
Mass. 

GEORGE H. SOGERS. Rogers is in business in Chicago but sends no 

report. He graduated in 1890. 

♦ARTHUR B. RUSSELL. -^ ^^'^ years ago the secretary received a very pleas- 

ant letter from Russell, who evidently remembered with 
enjoyment his Amherst days and companions. That 
letter was destroyed by fire with the other class records, 
in 1897. Through application to W. F. Pierce for 
farther news of Russell the following obituary notice was 
received. Its date is October i, i8g6: 

"One of the saddest deaths that has occurred in 
Alliance for many years occurred on Thursday after- 
noon between four and five o'clock, when the peaceful 
spirit of the beloved Rev. Arthur Byron Russell, late 
pastor of the Christian church of this city, took its flight. 

On last Wednesday he was taken with severe sick- 
ness and compelled to take his bed, from which he never 
rose. Skilled physicians did all in their power to save 
their patient but it was of no avail, as the terrible dis- 
ease of diphtheria had fastened its hold too firmly upon 
its victim to be shaken off by human skill; so, sur- 
rounded by his sorrowing family, the life of the noble 
man went out. 

"Arthur Byron Russell was born in Aurora, Portage 
county, Ohio, March 10, 1865, thirty-one years ago, 
his parents, who are still living, being Charles and 
Sylvia Russell. He leaves a sorrowing wife and twin 
daughters, Maud and May, aged 7 years, who have the 
sympathy of a host of friends in this their sad hour of 
bereavement. 

"In the church the Rev. Russell has always been a 
consistent and earnest worker. He was for several 

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terms a student at Amherst college, but later graduated 
from Hiram college, doing so with honors." 



Small graduated from Amherst in 1890 and is a HARRY E. SHALL, '90. 
Congregational minister in Connecticut. 



"I am now in the middle of a term of court and ALBERT D. TILLERY. 
have little time to comply with your request for a letter. 
You can, however, convey to the boys my best wishes 
for their happiness, prosperity and success. Since I 
left college it has not been my fortune to meet more 
than three or four of them." 



"Yours in reference to the Reunion of '88 at WILLIAM F. WHITE. 
Amherst is in hand. I thank the class through you for 
keeping in touch with me, when I have done so little to 
keep in touch with the class. Being of necessity and 
not of choice an early straggler from the ranks of loyal 
men with whom it was my fond hope to spend four 
years, I have been perhaps unduly modest and retiring 
after so many remembrances. I am still pastor of the 
Congregational Church of Trumbull, Conn., and also 
have charge of Bethany Mission, a growing work in the 
suburbs of Bridgeport, being blessed with health that 
permits three sermons every Sabbath. I feel very 
thankful that the clouds that hung over my life as I 
paced those Amherst woods near the ball ground, are 
lifted and I have not finally missed the calling I then 
longed to enter. A good people have survived my 
ministrations for nearly eight years, and I have had the 
pleasure of receiving some 75 persons into the Christian 

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church. It may be interesting for you to know that 
before and after taking my full seminary course in Hart- 
ford, I have in a large measure covered the ground of 
study I should have taken with you, and at a riper age. 
But still my loss is irreparable, if nothing more than in 
the loss of friendship." 



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EARL ELLINGWOOD BUNTEN, 

Born August 3, 1S90, 
Died January 15, 1597. 



CLASS 

Herman V. Ames, University of Pennsylvania, Phila- CATALOGUE. 
delphia, Pa. 

[M. A., 1890, Ph. D., 1891, (Harvard).] 

Fellow in Constitutional Law, Harvard University, 1890-gi; 
Instructor in History, University of Michigan, 1891-93; Acting 
Assistant Professor in American History, 1893-94; Student at the 
Universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg, 1894-95; engaged in 
research work, Ann Arbor, 1895-96; Assistant Professor of History, 
Ohio State University, 1896-97; Instructor in American Constitu- 
tional History, University of Pennsylvania, since 1897. 

William H. H. Andrews, Scotland, Mass. 

Teacher, Mattoon, 111., 1888; Principal Lane Grammar School, 
Gloucester, Mass., 1889; In business, Gloucester and East 
Milton, 1889-92; Merchant at Scotland, Mass., since Nov. 1892; 
Postmaster since 1893. 

Married, May 30, 1892, to Amelia Stevens, of Gloucester; one 
daughter, Susie Evelyn, b. Apr. 5, 1895. 

Leonard F. Apthorp, 40 Water St., Boston, Mass. 

In business in Boston since 1888. 
Residence, 10 Gordon St., Jamaica Plain. 

Harmon Austin, 207 Mahoning Ave., Warren, O. 

In business in Warren since 1888; Secretary of the Trumbull 
Mfg. Co. ; President of the Jefferson Light and Power Co. 

Married, Sept. 3, 1890, to Sally Heaton Woods; Children: — 
Julia Heaton, b. Dec. i, i8gi; *Harmon Woods, b. Aug. 17, 1894; 
d. June 10, 1895; Ruth Maria, b. Nov. 11, 1898. 

Asa G. Baker, 6 Cornell St., Springfield, Mass. 

At New Haven, Conn., in editorial rooms of the Merriam Co., 
1888-90; in Springfield since 1890. 

Married, Sept. 8, 1892, to Lucy Cynthia Chamberlain, Kanona, 
N. Y. ; Children: — Walton Chamberlain, b. July 24, 1893; Ingham 
Chamberlain, b. March 23, 1896; *Lucy, b. April 21, 1898, d. Aug. 
24, 1898. 

Albert S. Bard, Esq., 30 Broad St., New York City. 

[LL. B., A. M., (Harvard), 1892.] 

In New York City since Sept. i, 1892; Law Student, 1892-93; 
practicing since 1893, with the firm of Hornblower, Byrne, 
Taylor & Miller. 

Residence, 187 Madison Ave. 

Ralph W. Bartlett, Esq., 904 Exchange Building, 
Boston, Mass. 

[LL. B., (Boston University), 1892.] 

January to May, 1893, in New York City; practicing law in Bos- 
ton since May 1893; Instructor in Real Property Law, Boston Uni- 
versity Law School, since 1894. 

Married, Feb. 14, 1894, to Anna B. Curry, Ironwood, Mich ; Chil- 
dren :— Elizabeth Weston, b. Nov. 27, 1894; Curry McLeod, b. 
Jan. 10, i8g6; Newton(?), b. Nov. 27, 1898. 



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Rev. Clarence Wyatt Bispham, 284 Orange St., New 
Haven, Conn. 

[A. M., (Amherst), 1891.] 

Ordained Deacon, i8gi; Assistant Minister to St. John's Parish, 
Washington, D. C. 1891-92; Ordained Priest, March, 1892; Rector 
of St. Michael and All Angels' Church, Washington. 1892-1896; 
Curate and Precentor, Trinity Church, New Haven, Conn., since 
April, i8g6. 

Married, March 27, 1894, to Elizabeth Gray Casey, Washington, 
D. C; Children:— Sophy Heberton, b. Feb. 28, 1895; Margaret 
Wyatt, b. March 28, 1897. 

Charles L. Bliss, M. D., 216 I St. N. W., Washington, 
D. C. 

[M. D., (New York University), A. M., (Amherst), 1891.] 
Professor of Anatomy and Assistant Professor of Surgery in the 
American Medical College, Beirut, Syria, 1891-95 ; practicing in 
Washington, D. C, since 1895; office 907 New York Ave. 

Married, Sept. 25, 1894, to Edith M. Little, of Washington, 
(sister of A. M. Little) ; one son, George Little, b. May 22, 1896. 

John S. Brayton, Jr., Fall River, Mass. 

At Harvard Law School, 1888-91 ; In business at Fall River 
since 1891. 

Rev. Charles A. Brack, Cotuit, Mass. 

[B. D., (Andover), 1894.] 

Assistant in High School, Augusta, Me., 1888-April, 1889; in Cal- 
ifornia in ill health, 1889-go; High School, Augusta, 1890-91; Ando- 
ver Theological Seminary, 1891-94; Pastor of Congregational 
Church, Strong, Me., 1894-Sept. 1896; Pastor of Union Church, 
Cotuit, Mass., since 1896. 

Married, Sept. 21, 1895, to Mary Elizabeth McAllister. 

William L. Brewster, Esq., 534 Chamber of Commerce, 
Portland, Ore. 

[LL. B., (Columbia), 1891.] 

Practicing Law in Portland since 1891. 

Married, June 19, 1896, to Elizabeth Failing Conner. 

*Samuel Cony Brooks. 

Yale Divinity School, 1888-89; in Missionary work in Colorado, 
summer of 1889 and died of typhoid fever at Elgin, Neb., on his 
way home, Sept. 5, 1889. 

Walter E. Bunten, City Hall, Kingston, N. Y. 

Principal of Public School Saugerties.N. Y., 1888-90; with Dela- 
ware and Hudson Canal Co., 1890-91; Principal of Public School, 
South Rondout, N. Y., 1891-92; Principal of Sinclairville Acad- 
emy, (N. Y.), 1892-95; Principal of Academy, Tioga Center, N. Y., 
1895-96; at Kingston since 1896. 

Married, Nov. 28, 1889, to Sadie Voigt, So. Rondout, N. Y. ; 
one son, the Class Boy, *Earl Ellingwood, b. Aug, 3, 1890; d. 
Jan. 15, 1897. 

Rev. Irving A. Burnap, South Natick, Mass. 

[B. D., (Hartford), 1892.] 

Pastor at Monterey, Mass., 1892-97; Pastor at So. Natick since 
1897. 

Married, June 20, 1893, to Annie Binnie, Hartford, Conn.; 
Children :— Robert S., b. July 12, 1894; Arthur E., b. Feb. 9, 1896. 

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Frederick L. Chapman, no LaSalle Ave., Chicago. 

[B. D., (McCormick); A. M., (Amherst), 1891.] 

In Journalism in Chicago since i8gi; Proprietor and Publisher 

of The Ra}n''s Horn and Our Day. 

Married, May 11, 1891, to Louise Lovett Sewall, Chicago, 111. ; 

Children:— Louise, b. Feb. 15, 1892; Frederick L., Jr., b. Nov. 2, 

1893; Edmund Sewall, b. Apr. 23, 1895. 

William B. Child, Union League Club, i East 39th St., 
New York City. 

Assistant Librarian, Amherst College, 1888-89; Assistant Libra- 
rian, Columbia College, 1889-91 ; In same work, Newton Theolog- 
ical Institution, 1891 and '92; 1893-94, Cataloguer with Macmillan 
& Co. ; 1895, engaged in special bibliographical work ; Librarian 
The Union League Club, since Dec, 1895. 

Married, Oct. 7, 1897, to Mary Gertrude Sykes, Elkhart, Ind. ; 
one daughter, Jane, b. May 28, 1899. 

Sidney A. Clark, M. D., i88 Bridge St., Northampton, 
Mass. 

[M. D., (Harvard); A. M., (Amherst), 1891.] 
Practicing medicine in Northampton since i8gi. 
Married, Nov. 5, 1891, to Esta Avery Harding; one daughter, 
Millicent, b. Aug. 25, 1893. 

Rev. William P. Clarke, Samakove, Bulgaria. 

[B. D., (Hartford), 1891.] 

Missionary of the A. B. C. F. M. in Samakove, since 1891. 

Prof. Zelotes W. Coombs, Worcester Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, Worcester, Mass. 

[A. M., (Amherst), 1895.] 

Instructor in Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, 
i888-8g; Instructor in University of Virginia, 1889-90; Instructor in 
Modern Languages, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1890-94; 
Student, University of Berlin, 1894-95; Assistant Professor, Wor- 
cester Polytechnic, since 1895. 

George H. Corey, 9 Cliff St., New York City. 

Chemist with Bethlehem Iron Co., Bethlehem, Pa., 1889-90; in 
Cleveland, O., 1890-91; with Ledoux Chemical Laboratory Co., 
New York, since 1891. 

Rev. Geo. Cornwell, Chefoo, Shantung Province, China. 

[B. D., (Union), 1891.] 

Pastor Presbyterian Church, Poundridge, N. Y., 1891-92; Mis- 
sionary in China under Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, 
since 1892. 

Married, June 11, i8gi, to Mary W. Mead, Yorktown, N. Y. ; 
Children:— William M., b. Apr. 17, 1892; Sarah Louise; John 
Nevins. 

Rev. J. Romeyn Danforth, St. Albans, Vt. 

[B. D., (Yale); A. M., (Amherst), 1891.] 

Traveled and studied in Europe, i8gi-92; Pastor of Congrega- 
tional Church, Mystic, Conn., July, 1892-Dec. i8g7; Pastor of Con- 
gregational Church, St. Albans, Vt., since i8g7. 

Married, May 20, i8g7, to Prudence M. Langworthy, Mystic, 
Conn. ; one daughter, Catharine Hancos, b. Apr. 30, i8g8. 

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William E, Davidson, Esq., Rudyard, Mich. 

[LL. B., (Northwestern), 1896.] 

Assistant Cashier, Merchants' Bank, Neligh, Neb., 1888-90; 
Treasurer, Kearney & Black Hills Railroad, 1890-93; Vice-president 
Merchants' Bank, Neligh, 1893-94; Law Student, Northwestern 
University, 1894-96; practicing in Chicago, July 1896-1898; Chair- 
man Michigan Land Company, Limited, Rudyard, Mich., since 
1898. 

Married, July 14, 1892, to Gertrude Genevra Goodell, of Kear- 
ney, Neb.; one son, Benjamin Goodell, b. Apr. 18, 1894. 

Arthur V. Davis, General Manager Pittsburg Reduction 
Co., Pittsburg, Pa. 

With Pittsburg Reduction Co. since 1888. 

Married, Oct. 23, 1894, to Florence L Holmes, of Pittsburg. 

Residence, Hotel Schenley, Pittsburg Pa. 

Horace W. Dickerman, 30 Howard St., New York City. 

Secretary and Treasurer American Desk and Seating Co., 
Chicago, 1888-1896; Proprietor of American Store Stool Co. and 
American Desk and Stool Co., New York City, since 1896. 

Married. Mayas, 1888, to Mary Luella Hill, of Chicago; one 
son, Donald Horace, b. Jan. 22, 1893. 

Residence, Montclair, N. J. 

Charles H. Edwards, Amherst, Mass. 

Student and Assistant in Chemistry, Amherst College, i888-go; 
Private Tutor, Pittsburg, Pa., 1890-92; Assistant in Chemistry, 
Amherst, 1893-95; Town Treasurer, Clerk and Collector since 
1895. 

James Ewing, M. D., 260 West 57th St., New York City. 

[M. D., (College of Physicians and Surgeons), 1891 ; A. M., 
(Amherst), 1892.] 

Assistant in Surgery, West Penn Hospital, Pittsburg, Pa., 
1891; at Roosevelt Hospital, New York, 1892-93; practicing since 
1893 ; Tutor in Histology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
1893-97; Instructor in Clinical Diagnosis, College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, 1897-99; Instructor in Pathology, New York College of 
Dentistry; Pathologist, Sloane Maternity Hospital; Assistant 
Pathologist, Roosevelt Hospital, 1893-99; Professor of Pathology, 
Cornell University Medical College, 1899—. 

Rev. James A. Fairley, Nutley, N. J. 

Instructor in Private School, Millerton, N. Y., 1888-90; Instruc- 
tor in High School, Peoria, 111., 1890-94; Pastor St. Paul's Church 
(Congregational), Nutley, N. J., since Dec, 1894. 

Edward F. Gage, M. D., 336 Washington St., Brook- 
line, Mass. 

[M. D., (Harvard), A. M., (Amherst), 1893.] 

Physical Director, Y. M. C. A., New Britain, Conn., 1888-89; at 
Ft. Wayne, Ind., 1889-90; Student, Harvard Medical School, 
1890-93; in practice in Winthrop and Boston, Mass., since 1893. 

Married, Oct. 17, 1888, to Lura Wight Nelson, of Amherst, 
who died Aug. 16, 1897; Children: — Marion, b. Nov. 4, 1889; Roland 
Dickey, b. Mar. 5, 1891; Horace Nelson, b. Nov. 15, 1892. 

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Rev. Frank L. Garfield, Feeding Hills, Mass. 

[B. D., (Yale), 1892.] 

Instructor, Shady Side Academy, Pittsburg, Pa., 1888-89; Stu- 
dent at Yale Divinity School, 1889-92; Pastor of Congregational 
Church, Feeding Hills, since Aug., 1892. 

Married, Oct. 11, 1892, to Sadie K. Chandler, of Worcester, 
Mass. ; one son, Edward Chandler, b. Oct. 17, 1893, 

Class Secretary, 1884-93. 

Rev. Lincoln B. Goodrich, 36 Bolton St., Marlboro', 
Mass. 

[B. D., (Yale), 1893.] 

Assistant Principal of Schools, Plainfield, N. J., i888-8g, Princi- 
pal, 1889-90; Student at Yale Divinity School, 1890-93; Pastor Con- 
gregational Church, Bound Brook, N. J., 1893-96; Pastor Congre- 
gational Church, Marlboro', Mass., since March, 1896. 

Married, June 19, 1893, to Harriet P. Burnett, of Brooklyn, N. 
Y. ; Children:— Sheldon B., b. Apr. 9, 1894; Charles L., b. May 25, 
1895; Dorothy I., b. Oct. 31, 1896. 

Class President, 1884-93. 

William D. Goodwin, 45 Forest Place, Pittsfield, Mass. 

Classical Teacher and Assistant Principal, High School, Pitts- 
field, Mass., since 1888. 

Married, July 29, 1891, to Minnie R. Prentice, of Putnam, 
Conn.; Children: — Arthur Prentice, b. Aug. 14, 1892; Celia Will- 
iams, b. Feb. 18, 1894; Clarence Babcock, b. Sept. 7, 1896. 

William B. Greenough, 49 Westminister St., Provi- 
dence, R. I. 

[LL. B., (University of South Carolina), 1891; A. M., (Amherst), 
1891.] 

In practice at Providence, R. I., since 1891; Assistant City Sol- 
icitor since June, 1895. 

Married, Sept. 27, 1893, to Eliza S. Clark, of Amherst, Mass.; 
one daughter. Bertha Clark, b. Sept. 28, 1895. 

Shattuck O. Hartwell, 1003 S. West St., Kalamazoo, 
Mich. 

Instructor in Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, 
1888-89; Principal of High School, Kalamazoo, Mich., since 1889. 

Married, July 5, 1894, to Kate A. W. Hitchcock, of Kalamazoo; 
Children: — Edward Walker, b. July 15, 1895; Katharine, b. Feb. 
19, 1898. 

Class Secretary, since 1893. 

Robert W. Hastings, M. D., Kilsyth Road, Brookline, 
Mass. 

[M. D., A. M., (Harvard), 1893.] 

Instructor in private school, Springfield, Mass., 1888-89; Stu- 
dent in Harvard Medical School and in hospital work, 1889-93 ; 
First Medical House OfiBcer, Boston City Hospital, 1893-94; Exec- 
utive Assistant to Superintendent, Boston City Hospital, 1894-95; 
in practice in Brookline since 1895 ; Associate Editor of Annals of 
GyncEcology and Pediatry, since 1896; Medical Director of Tre- 
mont Dispensary and Visiting Physician of Boston Floating Hos- 
pital. 

Married, June 5, 1895, to Helen S. Gay, of Boston. 

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Arthur M. Heard, Manchester, N. H. 

In banking business in Arkansas City, Kan., 1888-1894; in Man- 
chester, N. H., since 1894; National Bank Examiner, 1893-95; 
Cashier Merchants' National Bank, since 1896. 

Married, June 12, 1895, to Ora B. Farrar, Arkansas City, Kan.; 
one son, Marston, b. Dec. 2, 1897. 

E. Osborn Hopkins, Holbrook, Mass. 

Teaching at South Yarmouth, Mass., 1888-89; Principal of the 
High School, Hollis, N. H., 1889-90; Principal of High School, 
South Hadley, Mass., 1890-94; Principal of High School, Hol- 
brook, Mass., since 1894. 

Married, Aug. 28, 1890, to Bessie Holmes Lyford, of Somerville, 
Mass. 

Augustus Seymour Houghton, Esq., care of Fitch, 
Houghton & Houghton, 50 Broadway, N. Y. 

Law Student, Newberne, N. C, i888-i8go: New York City, 
1890-92; Practicing with C. S. Houghton, since Oct., 1892. 

Married, Nov. 12, 1896, to Carol L. B. Squier, New York City; 
one daughter, Margaret, b. Sept. 26, 1898. 

Residence, 326 W. 83rd St. 

Clarence S. Houghton, Esq., care of Fitch, Houghton & 
Houghton, 50 Broadway, N. Y. 

Law Student, New York City, 1888-90; practicing in New York 
City, since 1890; with A. S. Houghton, since Oct., 1892; Assistant 
United States District Attorney for Southern District of New 
York, since April, i8g8. 

Married, Dec. 19, 1895, to Mary S. Clark, Louisville, Ky.; one 
daughter, Evelyn Clare, b. Nov. 16, 1896. 

Ellery C. Huntington, University of Nashville, Nash- 
ville, Tenn. 

In charge of Gymnasium, University of Virginia, 1889-90; 
Instructor in Greek, University of Nashville, since 1890. 

Married, June 16, 1892, to Susie B. Tucker, Sewanee, Tenn.; 
Children: — Ellery Channing, Jr., b. March 12, 1893; Frederick 
Sargent, b. Oct. 11, 1895. 

Rev. Frederick S. Hyde, Groton, Conn. 

[B. D., (Union), 1894.] 

Instructor, Syrian Protestant College, Beirut, i888-gi; Private 
Tutor, 1891-92; Student, Union Theological Seminary, 1892-94; 
Pastor of Congregational Church, Groton, Conn., since 1894. 

Married, July 19, 1894, to Matilda Strang, of Evansville, Ind.; 
Children: — Herman Selden and Dorothea, b. Mar. 15, 1898. 

George M. Hyde, 23 W. 9th St., New York. 

[B. D., (Yale), 1891 ; A. M., (Amherst), 1892.] 
Traveling in Europe, 1891; Instructor in English Literature, 
Minneapolis High School, 1892-96; Journalist, New York City, 
since 1896; editorial contributor to Commercial Advertiser. 

Married, Jan. 11, 1899, to Violet MacDougall Buel, of New 
York. 

Albert H. Jackson, Esq., 31 City and County Hall, 
Buffalo, N. Y. 

Student of law, Buffalo, 1888-90; in practice since 1890; Assist- 
ant to Corporation Counsel, since 1894. 
Residence, 325 Jersey St., Buffalo, N. Y. 

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Fred B. Jewett, M. D., State Asylum, Howard, R. I. 

[M. D., (Harvard), 1892.] 

Physician at State Hospital, Tewksbury, Mass., 1891-92; in 
practice at Dalton, Mass., 1892-93; in Maiden, 1893-96; Assistant 
Physician, State Hospital for Insane, Taunton, 1896-97; Deputy 
Superintendent, State Hospital for Insane, Howard, R. I., since 
1897. 

Married, Dec. 31, 1891, to Minnie Gould, of Taunton, Mass.; 
one son, Harold E., b. Nov. 18, 1892. 

Lucius E. Judson, Jr., Esq., care Baldwin & Blackmar, 
National Bank of Commerce Building, New York 
City. 

[LL. B., (Columbia), 1891.] 

In practice at Duluth, Minn., 1891-1895; in New York City, since 
1895. 

Married, October 17, 1893, to Carrie Virginia Kreps, of Alle- 
gheny, Pa. 

Rev. David L. Kebbe, 409 Walnut St., Springfield, 
Mass. 

[B. D., (Yale), A. M., (Amherst), 1891.] 

Pastor of Congregational Church, Southwick, Mass., fSgo-gs; 
of Emmanuel Church, Springfield, since Oct., 1895. 

Wallace M. Leonard, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Instructor in College for the Blind, London. Eng., 1888-90; 
with Estes and Lauriat, Boston, 1890-92; with P. Blakiston & Co., 
Publishers, since 1892. 

Married, Oct. 25, 1892, to Minnie Caroline Emery, of Boston, 
Mass.; Children :— Wallace Minot, Jr., b. Jan. 8, 1895; Emery 
Nelson, b. Jan. g, 1898. 

Residence : — Wyncote, Pa. 

Louis W. McLennan, Afton, la. 

Cashier State Savings Association, Ellsworth, Kan., i888-gi; 
with South Omaha (Neb.) National Bank, i8gi-93; Cashier Citi- 
zens' Bank, Afton, la., since 1893. 

Married, June 5, 1890, to Lulu I. Wright, of Hazleton, Pa.; one 
son, Kenneth, b. Sept. 8, 1892. 

Rev. Edward Lester Marsh, 9 Park St., Waterville, Me. 

[B. D., (Yale), 1891.] 

Post-graduate student, Andover 'Theological Seminary, i88g- 
92; Pastor First Congregational Church, Yarmouth, Mass., 1891- 
i8g7; of the First Congregational Church, Waterville, Me., 
since 1897. 

Married, Nov. 28, 1893 to Mary Eliza Jenkins, of West Barn- 
stable, Mass. ; one daughter, Elizabeth White, b. July 28, 1898. 

William D. Marsh, Schroon Lake, N. Y. 

Instructor in Jaffna College, Ceylon, 1888-90; at Amherst, in ill 
health, 1890-91; Post-graduate student, Yale, 1891-92; at Amherst, 
1892; at Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, 1892-94; in evan- 
gelistic work since 1894. 

Married, Oct., i8g7, to Lillian Sawyer, of Schroon Lake, N, Y.; 
one son, John, b. July 15, i8g8. 

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Charles W. Marshall, 117 Bassett St., New Britain, 
Conn. 

Principal of High School, Wilton, N. H., 1888-90; Principal of 
High School, Holliston, Mass., 1890-93; Assistant Principal at New 
Britain, Conn., since 1893. 

Married, July 29, 1891, to Edith Maud Gott, of Rockport, Mass.; 
Children: — Helen Agnes, b. July 29, 1892; Donald Earle, b. Apr. 
18, 1894. 

John H. Miller, 626 Greenup St., Covington, Ky. 

Post-graduate student, Yale, 1888-89; with Inland Oil Co., Cin- 
cinnati, O., 1889-95; Secretary and Treasurer Iridian Paint Co., 
Cincinnati, since 1896. 

Warren J. Moulton, 22 E. Divinity Hall, New Haven, 
Conn. 

[B. D., (Yale), A. M., (Amherst), 1893; Pb- D. (Gottingen) 1898.] 
Teacher in Plainfield, N. J., 1888-90; at Yale Divinity School, 
1890-93; Student at Yale on "Hooker Fellowship," 1893-95; in 
Germany, 1895-98; Assistant in Biblical department, Yale Univer- 
sity, 1898; appointed instructor for 1899, in Biblical Department 
and Divinity School. 

William B. Noyes, M. D., 28 W. 6ist St., New York 
City. 

[M. D. (Medical Department of Columbia University), 1891.] 
Methodist Episcopal Hospital, Brooklyn, 1891-92; studied in 
Germany, 1892-93 ; in practice in New York City since 1893 at 162 
West 73rd St.; Jan., 1899, moved to 122 West 58th St.; until 1896 
assistant in department of Nervous Diseases and in the depart- 
ment of Children's Diseases, Columbia University; at present 
Attending Neurologist at the Demilt Dispensary and Pathologist 
to Columbus Hospital; Instructor in the department of Pathology, 
New York University. 

John E. Oldham, 52 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 

With Leach, Shewell & Sanborn, Educational Publishers, Chi- 
cago, 1888-89; with N. W. Harris & Co., Bankers, Boston, i88g- 
1898; with Poor and Greenough since Nov. 15, 1898. 

Married, Dec. 5, 1894, to Harriet E. Holden, of Springfield, 
Mass.; one daughter, Margaret Anna, b. May 2, 1896. 

Residence, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 

Arthur D. Osborne, 59 Columbus Ave., Somerviile, 
Mass. 

Student of Modern Languages, 1888-89; Instructor in Milwau- 
kee (Wis.) Academy, 1889-90; in hay and grain business, Boston, 
Mass., 1890-92; on Boston City Directory, 1892-97; Medical student, 
Tufts College, since 1897; Registrar of Births, 1893-96; on Mass. 
State Census, 1895; Secretary, Democratic City Committee, 1897; 
Member of Somerviile City Council, 1897 and 1898; Secretary, 
Municipal League, 1899. 

Marion M. Palmer, Esq., Delhi, N. Y. 

Student at law, 1888-91; in practice at Delhi, since i8gi. 
Married June 22, 1893, to Annie I. Hinderer, of Bridgeport, 
Conn.; one daughter, Margery I., b. Aug. 22, 1897. 

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*Allen Woodbury Parsons. 

In paper mills, Holyoke, Mass., i888-go; with Carter, Rice & 
Co., Boston, Mass., iSgo-gi; in ill health from fall of iSgi until his 
death, June i, 1893, at Kalamazoo, Mich. 

Pres. William F. Pierce, Kenyon College, Gambier, O. 

[A. M., (Amherst), 1892; L. H. D., (Hobart), 1896.] 

In business, Springfield, Mass., 1888-89; post-graduate student, 

Cornell University, 1889-90; Instructor in Psychology, Mass., and 

Athens, C, 1890-92; Professor of Philosophy, Kenyon, 1892-96; 

President of Kenyon since 1896; ordained Deacon, 1894. 

Married, June 18, 1891, to Louise Stephens Fagan, of Hacketts- 

town, N. J. 

Willson H. Perine, 413 Exchange Building, Kansas 
City, Mo. 

With Perine & Hall, Real Estate Dealers, Kansas City, 1888-89; 
clerk in American National Bank, 1889-93; with Davidson & 
Smith, grain merchants, 1893-96; in firm of Perine Bros., (with H. 
B. Perine, '86), grain merchants, since 1896; Vice-President 
Argentine Elevator Co., since June, 1897. 

Residence 3615 Wyn St., Kansas City. 

Prof. Paul C. Phillips, M. D., Amherst College, 
Amherst, Mass. 

[M. D., (College of Physicians and Surgeons, N. Y.), 1895.] 
Physical Director, Y. M. C. A., Kansas City, Mo., 1888-91; same 
position, Louisville, Ky., 1891-92. and at Young Men's Institute, 
New York City, 1892-95; Athletic and Medical Director of the Y. 
M. C. A's of Chicago, 1895-96; Assistant Professor of Hygiene and 
Physical Education, Amherst College, since Sept., 1896. 

Married, June 16, 1896, to Mary Louise Koehler, of Chicago; one 
son, Paul Koehler, b. Dec. 13, 1897. 

Arthur H. Pierce, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. 

[A. M., (Harvard), 1892.] 

Post-graduate student at Amherst, 1888-89; Walker Instructor, 
1889-91; student and fellow at Harvard, 1891-93; appointed to the 
Rufus B. Kellogg University Fellowship, Jan. 1, 1894; student at 
Universities of Berlin, Strassburg, Rome and Paris, 1894-97, Fel- 
lowship Lecturer at Amherst since 1897. 

William M. Prest, Esq., 27 State St., Boston, Mass. 

[A. M., (Amherst), 1891; LL. B., (Boston University), 1892.] 

Traveled around the world, 1888-90; student of law 1890-92; in 
practice in Boston, since 1892; Sometime Captain Co. M, 5th 
Regiment, M. V. M. 

Married. July 9, 1890, to *Emma A. Day, of Uxbridge, Mass.; 
one daughter, Alice E., b. Dec. 24, 1891. 

Residence, South Braintree, Mass. 

Rev. Frank E. Ramsdell, 302 Brookline St., Cambridge, 
Mass. 

[B. D., (Andover), 1891.] 

Pastor of Congregational Church, Gardner, Mass., 1891-96; of 
Pilgrim Church, Cambridge, Mass., since Dec, 1896. 

Married, June 25, 1889, to Mary L. Smith, of Brockton, Mass.; 
Children:— Theodore, b. June 19, 1892; Edward, b. June 12, 1894; 
Frank Ellsworth, Jr., b. Dec. 4, 1895. 

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Rev. Leonard B. Richards, Trinity Rectory, Jackson- 
ville, 111. 

Graduated Philadelphia Episcopal Seminary, 1891; ordained 
Deacon, 1891; Priest, 1892; assistant to Rev. T. K. Conrad, D. D., 
1891-92; Rector, St. Stephens, Tottenville, S. I., 1892-95; of Trinity 
Church, Jacksonville, 111., since Sept., 1895; elected Rural Dean 
of Jacksonville at a meeting of the Jacksonville Deanery, Nov., 
1898. 

Married, June 14, 1893, to Eva May Benjamin, of New York. 

James G. Riggs, Plattsburgh, N. Y. 

[A. M., (Amherst), 1893.] 

Vice-Principal Union Academy, Belleville, N. Y., i888-8g; 
Principal Yates Academy, Chittenango, N. Y., 1889-91; Principal 
High School, Watertown, N. Y., 1891-92; studying abroad, 1892-93; 
Superintendent of Schools, Plattsburgh, N. Y., since 1893; Editor 
of Goldsmith's "Vicar of Wakefield" in "Students' Series of 
English Classics." 

Albert B. Ripley, 59 W. 46th St., New York City. 

Student of Medicine, New York, 1888-90; Actor, 1890-98; 
Attendance Officer for Board of Education, New York City, since 



John B. Rogers, M. D., California Woman's Hospital, 
31 18 Sacramento St., San Francisco, Cal. 

[M. D., (San Francisco Medical School), 1896.] 

Student at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1888-89; teaching in Califor- 
nia, 1890-93; student of medicine, 1893-96; Assistant Physician in 
City and County Hospital, 1897; in Woman's Hospital, sines 1898. 

Robert H. Sessions, 1616 Arapahoe St., Denver, Col. 

In Real Estate business, Denver, 1888-89; traveled in Europe 
and Egypt, 1889-90; Treasurer Binford Coal Co., since Oct., 1890. 

Married, Sept. 4, 1889, to Fanny L. Rice, of Youngstown, O.; 
one daughter, b. in 1894. 

Residence, 1427 Gaylord St. 



Geo. N. Seymour, Elgin, Neb. 

Banker at Neligh, Neb., 1888; Cashier Elgin (Neb.) State Bank, 
since Nov., 1888. 

Married, May 18, 1892, to Jessie L. Butler, of Meriden, Conn,; 
one daughter, Alma Brooks, b. Mar. 6, 1893. 

Clifton L. Sherman, Hartford, Conn. 

News Editor, Spring-field (Mass.) Union, 1888-90; same position, 
Hartford Couraut, 1890-92; Managing Editor The Courant, since 
March, 1892. 

Walter F. Skeele, 841 W. 37th St., Los Angeles, Cal. 

Chemist with manufacturing companies in Chicago, 1888-90; 
with City Gas Company, 1890-93; Organist Plymouth Congrega- 
tional Church, Chicago, 1890-93 ; Teacher and Organist, Albu- 
querque, New Mexico, 1893-95; at Los Angeles since 1895. 

Married, Feb. 4, 1891, to Mary Bosworth, of Elgin, 111.; one 
son, Franklin Bosworth, b. Nov. 22, 1891. 

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John E. Smith, Newton Centre, Mass. 

Manufacturer, Worcester, Mass., 1888-98; at West Newton 
since 1898. 

Married, Nov. 9, 1897, to Caroline Barnard Tiffany, of Worces- 
ter, Mass. 

Willard P. Smith, Esq., 57 Erie County Savings Bank 
Building, Buffalo, N. Y. 

[LL. B., (Columbia), 1891.] 

In practice in New York City, 1891-92; in BufiEalo since 1892. 

Residence, 294 Hudson St. 

Arthur F. Stearns, Lakewood, N. J. 

In business in Denver Colo., 1888-94; Instructor in Colorado 
College, Colorado Springs, 1894-96; in Boys' School, Lakewood, 
N. J., since 1896. 

George P. Steele, Painesville, O. 

In business in Painesville since 1888; President and General 
Manager Painesville Gas Co., since 1896. 

Married, Oct. 8, 1890, to Grace B. Pierson, of Painesville; 
Children: — John Worthington, b. July 21, 1891; *George Pierson, 
b. Dec. 19, 1892; d. Mar. 8, 1893; *George Hilliard, b. July 28, 
1896; d. Aug. I, 1897. 

Charles Sullivan, Esq., 76 Elm St., New York City. 

[M. A., (St. Francis Xavier College), 1897.] 

Instructor in High School, Chicago, 1889-go; admitted to the 
bar, 1890; in practice in Chicago, 1890-1893; inNew York City since 
1894. 

Married, Feb. 7, 1898, to Katherme Jeanette Hardin, of New 
York City; one son, Charles Hardin, b. Jan. 12, 1899. 

George S. Tenney, 8 Washington Place, New York City. 

In American Exchange National Bank, New York, 1888-89; 
with C. H. Tenney & Co. since i88g. 

Married, Feb. 17, 1896, to Sadie L. Gauss, of St. Louis, Mo.; 
one daughter, Janet, b. July 11, 1897. 

Garret W. Thompson, 15th and Race Sts., Philadelphia, 
Pa. 

[A. M., (Amherst), 1891.] 

Student in Berlin, 1888-91; teacher in Bridgeton, N. J., 1891-92; 
Instructor in Latin and Greek, Friends' Central School, since 
1892; Organist of Fifth Baptist Church, Philadelphia. 

Married, Dec. 16, i8go, to Emma Murray, of Cincinnati, O.; 
Children; — Gladys, b. Dec. 2, 1894; Dorothy, b. Sept. 19, 1897. 

Edward B. Vaill, Esq., Times Building, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Student of law in Pittsburgh, 1888-91; in practice since i8gi; 
in firm of Breck & Vaill since 1894. 

Clyde W. Votaw, University of Chicago, Chicago. 

[B. D., (Yale) 1891; A. M., (Amherst), 1892; Ph. D., (Chicago), 
1896.] 

Instructor in American Institute of Sacred Literature, Chicago, 
1891-92; Reader in New Testament Literature, University of Chi- 
cago, 1892-94; Associate, 1894-96; Instructor since 1896. 

Married, Nov. 24, 1892, to Cora Collins Whitmore, of Syca- 
more, 111. ; one daughter, Claire, b. Dec. 4, 1894. 

Residence, 437 E. 6ist St. 

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Edward H. Waldo, University of Pennsylvania, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

[M. E., (Cornell), 1890.] 

With Thompson-Houston and its successor, the General Elec- 
tric Co., with headquarters at Lynn, Mass., 1890-92; Superinten- 
dent General Electric Co.'s Repair Shop, New York, 1892-94; 
Instructor in Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania 
since 1894. 

Married, Aug. 15, 1893, to Mina K. Stockbridge, of Amherst; 
Children : — Edward Stockbridge, b. Nov. 10, 1895 ; John Harden- 
bergh, b. Feb. 15, 1898. 

Residence, 5709 Ashland Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Samuel D. Warriner, Calumet and Hecla Mfg. Co., Cal- 
umet, Mich. 

[B. S., E. M., (Lehigh), 1890.] 

Assistant Engineer, Lehigh Valley Coal Co., Wilkesbarre, Pa., 
1890-91; Chief Mechanical Engineer, 1891-97; Superintendent, 
Calumet and Hecla Mfg. Co. since 1897. 

Married, May 18, 1898, to Stella Mercer Farnham, of Wilkes- 
barre, Pa. , 

Rev. Elbridge C. Whiting, Tewksbury, Mass. 

[B. D., (Yale), 1891.] 

Pastor in Springfield, Mass., 1891-92; of Fifth Avenue Congre- 
gational Church, Minneapolis, Minn., 1892-96; Acting Pastor of 
Congregational Church, Tewksbury, since 1896. 

Married, June 4, 1891, to Louise Dana Adams, of Castine, Me.; 
Children: — Louise Adams, b. Feb. i5, 1893; Charlotte Adams, b. 
Sept. 18, 1896; Helen Adams, b. Sept. 25, 1898. 

Charles B. Wilbar, 40 State St., Boston, Mass. 

Broker, with A. B. Turner & Co., Boston, 1888-92; with Barnes 
& Cunningham, 1892-94; in New York City, 1894-96; in Provi- 
dence, R. I., 1896-97; in Boston since 1897; Since 1898 in firm of 
C. B. Wilbar & Co., bond dealers. 

Married, June 6, 1894, to May Chapin, of Oneida, N.Y. ; one 
daughter, Esther, b. Dec. 7, 1896. 

Residence, 38 Linden St., Brookline, Mass. 

Henry L. Wilkinson, care Harvey Fisk & Sons, 29 Nas- 
sau St., New York City. 

In Banking business, Providence, R. I., 1888-92; Assistant 
National Bank Examiner, 1891-92; with Harvey Fisk & Sons since 
Dec, 1892. 

Married, June 4, 1896, to Bertha Sanford, of Bridgeport, Conn. 

Residence, 144 Coleman St., Bridgeport, Conn. 

Rev. Herbert P. Woodin, Chicopee, Mass. 

[B. D., (Yale), 1893.] 

Instructor in St. John's School, Sing Sing, N. Y., 1888-90; 
Divinity Student, Yale, 1890-93; Pastor at Curtisville, Mass., 1891- 
94; of Presbyterian Church, Amenia, N. Y., 1894-98; of Third 
Congregational Church, Chicopee, since Sept., 1898. 

Married, Jan. 26, 1898, to Alice Mead, of Amenia, N. Y. 

John Button Wright, 42 W. 76th St., New York City. 

[M. A., (Amherst), 1895.] 

Private tutor, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1888-90; with United Electric 
Traction Co., and Lloyd & Paxton, Marion, N. J., and New York 
City, 1890-92 ; Instructor in Institution for the Improved Instruc- 
tion of the Deaf, New York City, 1892-94; Principal Wright- 
Humason School since 1894. 

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/ SPECIAL 

*ri, 1 r K- T. STUDENTS. 

*Charles Crombie Bruce. 

[A. B., extra ordine7n, (Amherst), 1886; B. D., (Andover), 1878.] 
Preaching, 1887-1891; in ill health, 1891-97; died at Somerville, 

Mass., Jan. 26, 1897. (Enrolled in the Class of 1875, which he first 

entered). 

Harold H. Jacobs, M. D., 603 S. High St., Akron, O. 

[M. D., (Medical College of Ohio), 1891.] 

In practice at Akron since 1891. 

Married, Sept. 2, 1891, to Elizabeth T. Griffin, of Akron; 
Children: — Hulda Griffin, b. Sept. 12, 1892; Harriet Taylor, b. 
May 23, 1894. 

Wallace R. Montague, 208 S. Front St., LaCrosse, Wis. 

[M. A., (Beloit), 1897.] 

Clerk in bank, Columbus, Wis., 1888; Secretary and Treasurer 
LaCrosse Cracker Co. since 1889; also Treasurer LaCrosse Knit- 
ting Works and LaCrosse Wallis Carriage Co. 

Married, Oct. 29, 1895, to Winifred Samuels, of LaCrosse; one 
son, Wallace R., Jr., b. April 24, 1897. 

Charles B. Raymond, Akron, O. 

Secretary Akron Woolen and Felt Co., 1888-90; with Goodrich 
Hard Rubber Co., 1890-98; Manager Akron Branch, American 
Hard Rubber Co., since June, 1898. 

Married, May 21, 1890, to Mary Perkins, of Akron; Children: — 
Mary Perkins, b. June 3, 1891; George Perkins, b. Dec. 20, 1894. 



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NON" Addison Allen, Esq., Metropolitan Building, i Madison 
Ave., New York City. 

GKADU A lEo. [A. M., LL. B., (Columbia), 1889.] 

In practice in New York since 1889; member of firm of Allen & 
Bentley. 

Residence, 35 W. 33rd St. 

Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Jr., 294 Elm St., New Haven, 
Conn. 

[A. B., (Yale), 1888.] 
Physician, New Haven, Conn. 

John N, Blair, Esq., 32 Liberty St., New York City. 

[A. B., (Michigan), 1888.] 

Student of Law, New York, 1888-91; in practice since i8gi, 
member of the firm of Blair & Rudd. 

Residence, The Benedick, Washington Sq. E. 

George Moseley Brockway. 

[M. D., (Buffalo), 1891.] 

Ernest Goodell Carleton, Bisbee, Ariz., care Moctozuma 
Copper Co. 

[A. B., (Amherst), 1889; M. D., (College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York), 1892.] 

On the Medical Staff of Gouverneur Hospital, 1892-93; of Old 
Marion St. Maternity Hospital, 1893-95; st Copper Queen mine, 
Bisbee, Ariz., 1895-98; with Moctozuma Copper Co., at Nacosari, 
Sonora, Mex., since Feb., 1898. 

James Lee Doolittle, Ballston, N. Y. 

No information. 

Wm.Esty. Jj^l^^f llulv. /SiZlfji / 

[A. B., 1889; A. M., 189s, (Amherst).l •'^^1 *^Jf^ 



[A. B., 1889; A. M., 1893, (Amherst).] ~ ' ^ 9% ^^/ii 

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, University or \ 
Illinois, since 1896. 

Married; one daughter, b. Mar. 15, 1899. 



Henry Seth Fish. 



Commercial Traveler, headquarters at Boston. No informa- 
tion since 1893. 

Homer Gard, Hamilton, O. 

With The Nezvs, Hamilton, C, 1887-91 ; with The Democrat 
since iSgi ; Managing Editor since Jan., 1893. 

Married, June i, 1892, to Lutie E. Matthias, of Hamilton; one 
son, Charles Campbell, b. Jan. 13, 1895. 

Edwin P. Gleason, M. D., Brockton, Mass. 

[M. D., (Harvard), 1891.] 

In practice at Cambridge, 1891-93; Town Physician, Maynard, 
Mass., 1893; at Bensonhurst-by-the-Sea, N. Y., 1894-96; at Cam- 
pello since 1896. 

Married, Aug. 28, 1895, to Sadie Louise Harlow, of Whitman, 
Mass. 

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Albert P. Goodwin, 354 Washington Boulevard, Chi- 
cago, 111. 

In Public Library, Minneapolis, 1888-90; in business, Chicago 
and Minneapolis, 1890-91 ; with Fidelity Mutual Life Association, 
1891-94; Contracting Agent, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 
R. R. Lake Lines, since Apr. 1894. 

Harold Russell Griffith, Esq., 32 Nassau St., New York 
City. 

[A. B., (Yale), 1888.] 

In literary work and student of law. New York City, 1888-92; in 
practice since 1892. 

John Haynes, 127 Pembroke St, Boston, Mass. 

[A. B., (Williams), 1888; Ph. D., (Johns Hopkins), 1895.] 
Principal of High School, East Hartford, Conn., 1888-90; at 
Holbrook, Mass., 1890-91; of Academy, Wethersfield, Conn., 1891- 
92; at Johns Hopkins University, 1892-95; Instructor in Woman's 
College, Baltimore, 1894-95; in Free Academy, Norwich, Conn., 
1895-1898 ; Junior Master, Public Latin School, Boston, since 1898, 

Rev. Arthur Mitchell Little, JU ^€mtfgL " Il ' l?*> ^M.*^-^ 

[A. B., 1889, B. D., 1891, (Yale); Ph. D., (Leipzig), 1892.] 
Pastor of Presbyterian Church, Takoma Park, D. C, ±892-1895; 
of Presbyterian Church, LaGrange 111., since 1895. 

Married, June 2, 1891, to Marion Percival Keene, of Washing- 
ton; Children: — Edward Norton, b. Nov. 26, 1893; Mildred Prince, 
b. Nov. 26, 1895; Dwight Prince, b. July 13, 1898. 

George A. Merritt, Amherst, Mass. 

In PostofiSce, Amherst, since 1885 ; Assistant Postmaster since 
1889. 

Married, Aug. 19, 1890, to Cora B. Merritt, of Hinsdale, N. H. 

Rev. George H. Newman, Ritzville, Wash. 

Pastor First Baptist Church, Bois6, Idaho, 1885-88; at North 
Elmira, N. Y., 1888-91; at Colfax, Wash., 1891-96; pastor of Con- 
gregational Church, Ritzville, since Oct. 1896. 

Married, Feb. 2, 1887, to Frances A. Clark, of Monticello, la.; 
\ Children:— George Clark, b. March i, 1888; Roberta Lee, b. July 

I *» • 16, 1891; John Hillier, b. Jan. 20, 1894; Marie Antoinette, b. Oct. 

28, 1897. 

Charles Benjamin Niblock, 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, 
111. 

No information, 

Frederick Holmes Paine, 45 W. 8ist St., New York 
City. 

[A. B., 1888, A. M., 1894, (Yale).] 

Head Instructor in Hamilton Institute, New York City. 

Albert Hale Plumb, Jr. 

[A. B. (Amherst), 1891.] 

Student of Theology, 1891-94; ordained; Acting Pastor Congre- 
gational Church, Peru, Mass.; expects to enter foreign missionary 
work. 

Married in 1898. 

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*Pierrepont Isham Prentice. 

Left College, 1886; Surgeon of Minnesota Iron Co., Soudan, 
Minn., at the time of his death, Jan. 4, i8go. 

George Harris Rogers, 13-15 Board of Trade Building, 
Chicago, 111. 

[A. B. (Amherst), 1890.] 
No information. 

*Arthur Byron Russell 

[A. B., (Hiram College).] 

Pastor of Christian Churches at North Jackson, Millersburg, 
Lisbon and Alliance, O., until his death, Sept. 28, 1896. 

Married to Minnie Sheldon, of Aurora, O. ; twin daughters, 
May and Maud, born in 1889. 

Charles T. Sempers. 

No information. 

Rev. Harry Elmer Small, Goshen, Conn. 

[A. B., (Amherst), 1890; B. D. (Yale), 1893.] 
Pastor Congregational Church, N. Guilford, Conn., 1893-96; at 
Goshen, Conn., since 1896. 

Malcolm Joseph Sullivan. 

No information. 

Albert Duff Tillery, Esq., Perry, Oklahoma. 

Practiced law at Plattsburg, Mo., until 1893; in practice at 
Perry since 1893. 



*Porter Tracy. 



Lost his life in attempting rescue, of victims of the Mississippi 
floods, in 1894. 



Franke Abijah Warfield 

No information. 



Rev. William F. White, T«mTbul47-G©RH. n.^f»m04JA-fm 

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[B. D., (Hartford), 1890.] 

Pastor of Congregational Church, Trumbull, since 18 

Married, June 3, 1885, to Bessie Eaton, of Ware, Mass.; Chil- "> 

dren:— Eloise Hamilton, b. Apr. 22, 1886; Emmons Eaton, ' '* 

Apr. 4, 1891 ; Harold Watson, b. May 11, 1894. 



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